The Flame Nebula, located about 1,400 light-years away from Earth, is a hotbed of star formation less than 1 million years old. Within the Flame Nebula, there are objects so small that their cores ...

Recent research has uncovered what appears to be the grizzly death of an exoplanet in the nearby Helix Nebula, which seems to have been devoured by a dying star. Researchers have been detecting X ...

On winter evenings, Orion is one of the easiest star ... Nebula that are still forming today. Millions of years from now, future astronomers will record the wave of new stars passing deeper into ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are stellar ...

Within this nebula, the hot core of the star remains—crushed to high ... Stars like our sun fuse hydrogen in their cores into helium. White dwarfs are stars that have burned up all of the ...

The JWST’s latest images showcase LBN 483, a nebula shaped by dynamic stellar interactions and magnetic fields.

A planetary nebula marks the end of 90% of all stars ... Prof Zijlstra explains: “When a star dies it ejects a mass of gas and dust – known as its envelope – into space. The envelope can be as much as ...

At the center, the star then begins to fuse their helium into carbon. It grows in size as the hydrogen ... the material they leave ends up as nebula — a floating cloud of dust and gas that might ...

Pagan (STScI) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into ... sequence star fusing hydrogen to helium in its core. This near-infrared image of a portion of the Flame Nebula from ...