Researchers in Dublin documented a newly born star with an infrared camera using the James Webb Space Telescope, which showed hot molecular material jetting out in opposite directions from the new star in a formation that resembles Darth Maul's lightsaber. The team published a paper in Nature describing their findings last week and today released an ultra-high-resolution capture of the …
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. CNN — The cosmic chaos caused by a very young star has been captured in the latest enchanting image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The dark line across the middle of the neck is a protoplanetary disc — dense gas and dust that could form a planet in the future — …
In a unique study, astronomers have found compelling evidence that the planets begin forming while stars are still infants and they grow up together like siblings. This new result, published in the journal Nature, shows the youngest and most detailed example of dust rings acting as cosmic cradles, where the seeds of planets form and take hold. Proto-stars as young …
In a unique study, astronomers have found compelling evidence that the planets begin forming while stars are still infants and they grow up together like siblings. Proto-stars as young as IRS 63 are still swaddled in a large and massive blanket of gas and dust called an envelope, and the proto-star and disk feed from this reservoir of material. "It …
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