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Star birth at the galaxy's edge

A star still forming found in the galaxy's far-flung regions.
By Phil Plait | 
1 year ago
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How are stars born? Absolutely gorgeously. See for yourself.

By Phil Plait | 
1 year ago
A map of the sky shows the location of Hyades stars (stars in magenta and constellations marked with green lines; note Orion to the left) including the leading tail (to the right) and the lower density trailing tail (left). Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA

The galaxy eats its own: The head of Taurus is being shredded by the Milky Way

By Phil Plait | 
1 year ago
A very young star in Orion announces its birth by blasting out twin beams of matter, creating the object HH 24.

A baby star stabs through the heart of Orion

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
Stars and gas seen by Hubble (red and yellow) together with long filaments of cold gas by ALMA  (purple) start to show a complete picture of star formation. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Y. Cheng et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF, S. Dagnello; NASA/ESA Hubble.

The spectacular ins and outs of starbirth

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
A Hubble of the huge star cluster Westerlund 2 reveals tens of thousands of stars, as well as gas and dust from which they form. Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team

Want to make planets? Stay away from monster stars.

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
Spitzer Space Telescope image of a part of the enormous Perseus Molecular Cloud, a nearby star-forming factory. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The sky on fire: The cold flames of the Perseus Molecular Cloud

By Phil Plait | 
2 years ago
The gorgeous Gum 15 nebula, a star-making factory similar in many ways to the Orion Nebula. Credit: Adam Block/ Telescope Live

Chewing over Gum 15: A gorgeous nebula in a much larger setting

By Phil Plait | 
3 years ago
130 hours of MeerKAT observations in radio wavelengths yielded an image of tens of thousands of normal galaxies at distances of billion of light years. Credit: SARAO; NRAO/AUI/NSF

Across the Universe, it's the normal galaxies doing all the star-making work

By Phil Plait | 
3 years ago
The two stars of the binary system [BHB2007] 11 are in the process of forming, drawing material from the disk surrounding both via a pair of filaments, wound up due to the motion of the stars around each other. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Alves et al.

ALMA sees the twisted birth of a binary star system

By Phil Plait | 
3 years ago
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