star formation

The cometary globule CG12 and its embedded star cluster NGC 5367, taken using a 50-cm Chilescope telescope. Credit: Sebastian Voltmer
Turns out, getting slammed by a supernova can make you collapse. If you're a cometary globule.
Phil Plait
Mar 4, 2021
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How do you feed the insatiable appetite of a nuclear black hole?
Elizabeth Rayne
Nov 10, 2020
spiral galaxy M51
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SOFIA and star birth in the Swan
Phil Plait
Oct 2, 2020
The Swan Nebula is a site of star formation. Herschel And Spitzer space observatories see the stars and outer gaseous regions, while SOFIA observations (blue and green) show gas and dust where stars are in the process of being born.
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Better take a look at NGC 6357 now before its stars blow up and disintegrate it
Phil Plait
Sep 15, 2020
The vast nebula NGC 6357, cranking out thousands of stars in three separate regions. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al; Optical: UKST; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Is the Milky Way evolving right before our eyes? Something it just spewed out could mean exactly that
Elizabeth Rayne
Aug 26, 2020
NASA image of the Milky Way
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When the supermassive black hole's away, the stars will play
Phil Plait
Aug 10, 2020
An optical (Hubble) and X-ray (Chandra, blue) image of the galaxy cluster SpARC 1049 shows the galaxies in the cluster center. Stars are forming at a furious rate right in the center of this image. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/Univ. of Montreal/J. Hlavacek-Lar
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A spectacular image of a kinky spiral points toward a baby planet forming
Phil Plait
May 20, 2020
A SPHERE image of the star AB Aurigae shows it to be surrounded by a disk of gas and dust with spiral arms, an indicator that at least one planet is in the process of forming there. Credit: ESO/Boccaletti et al.
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Hubble's gorgeous 'Mystic Mountain' remastered
Phil Plait
Mar 13, 2020
Close-up of a star-forming nebula shows a young star buried in gas and dust shooting twin beams of matter from its poles.
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A huge distant galaxy went from making billions of stars to suddenly stopping. Why?
Phil Plait
Feb 6, 2020
The hugely sprawling Tarantula Nebula, a vast star-forming complex in a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It's currently making hundreds of thousands of stars. Credit: ESO
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When galaxies collide, you get… a heron?
Phil Plait
Dec 20, 2019
The galaxies NGC 5394 and 5395, undergoing a very close pass that’s affecting both of them. ​​​​​​​Credit: NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory/Gemini Observatory/AURA
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A billion years ago the Milky Way had a huge burst of star birth
Phil Plait
Dec 17, 2019
The central region of the Milky Way surveyed in GALACTICNUCLEUS, an infrared study of over 3 million stars. Credit: ESO/Nogueras-Lara et al.
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The wind from a galaxy's supermassive black hole helps make stars… in other galaxies
Phil Plait
Nov 27, 2019
Artist drawing of a blazar, a galaxy with a supermassive black hole spewing out energy. Credit: DESY, Science Communication Lab
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Happy Halloween, from a giant space tardigrade!
Phil Plait
Oct 31, 2019
A dense clump of dust in the Carina Nebula, sculpted by intense radiation of newborn stars, looks like a giant space tardigrade. Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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When it comes to making stars, galactic gas tanks are nowhere near full
Phil Plait
Aug 7, 2019
The FUGIN survey looked at a huge swath of the Milky Way (top), finding both areas of low-density gas (bottom left) and high (bottom right). The latter is where stars are born. Credit: NINS, NOAJ, Nobeyama, FOREST
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A lopsided trail of galactic destruction… and construction
Phil Plait
Jun 25, 2019
The dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 4485 has a lot of gas and star formation going on either in it or nearby, due to the influence of another galaxy.
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Westerhout 40: A waist of space
Phil Plait
Jun 21, 2019
The star-forming nebula Westerhout 40, as seen in the far-infrared by Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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