Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed for the first ...

The universe is a slow-changing place. While it's mostly true that the heavens and the deep-sky objects in it will look ...

Just as people of the same age can vary greatly in appearance and shape, so do collections of stars or stellar aggregates. New observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest that ...

Star formation is an intricate process that transforms vast molecular clouds into newborn stars, often accompanied by the formation of circumstellar discs composed of gas and dust. These ...

A research team led by the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has achieved a significant breakthrough through international collaboration. They utilized the Atacama ...

On Oct. 11, 2022, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope spent over 20 hours observing the long-studied Hubble Ultra Deep Field for the first time. The general observer program (GO 1963) focused on ...

What can fast-spinning stars known as “blue lurkers” teach us about star formation and evolution? This is what a recent study being presented at the 245th American Astronomical Society meeting hopes ...

Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

Massive stars profoundly alter the physical and chemical properties of the interstellar medium through intense radiation, stellar winds, and ultimately supernova explosions, thereby driving the ...

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or ...

Galaxies have long served as beacons for understanding the Universe's vast structure and evolution. Astrophysicists and ...