A massive barred spiral galaxy from the early Universe has stunned astronomers by forming stars at 300 times the rate of the ...

A research team led by Shuo Huang (NAOJ and Nagoya University) has observed a massive and extremely active barred spiral ...

Webb Space Telescope Captures a Star in the Making and a Galaxy Far, Far Away CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a surprising new view of a long-studied galactic neighbor, the Sombrero galaxy, revealing a perspective that looks quite different from the wide-brimmed ...

Some of the twinkling stars ... galaxy. “The halo surrounds us, is everywhere,” Gallart says. “Picture a pizza inside of a balloon. The pizza would be the Milky Way disk; the air and dust ...

A new, more detailed study of 1,000 distant galaxies explains why some gas-rich galaxies don’t produce as many stars as you’d ...

Eventually, a large percentage of the stars within such a galaxy's nucleus get caught up in the bar. Reddish clumps inside the galaxy's spiral arms show where it harbors warm dust and clusters of ...

The spectrum that the NIRCam instrument uses can see past obstructive elements such as gas and dust to clearly image the galaxy’s stars, according to NASA. “Dense and bright clouds of dust lie ...

"Stars could be there, we just can't see them." Astronomers have accidentally discovered a dark galaxy filled with primordial gas untouched that appears to have no visible stars. The researchers ...

This artistic impression showcases its main features: an egg-shaped cocoon of dust surrounding the... This image shows an artist's reconstruction of WOH G64, the first star outside our galaxy to ...

Our galaxy took shape ... when clouds of cosmic dust collapsed from their own gravitational pull, and the resulting heat and pressure slowly transformed them into stars and planets ...