Scientists observe stars forming in the modern universe to understand how the process plays out. This is difficult because stars take so much time to form, while we've only been watching young stars ...

The more astronomers learn about the universe's earliest galaxies, the stranger they seem. Many of their surprising ...

Ultra-detailed simulations are showing how the first stars lit up the dark Universe and seeded space with elements such as carbon, oxygen, and iron. The MEGATRON project could bridge JWST observations ...

Look up at the sky on a clear night, and you'll see thousands of stars – about 6,000 or so. But that's only a tiny fraction of all the stars out there. The rest are too far away for us to see them.

One of the ironies of deep-sky imaging is that stars are generally not the stars of the show. Of course, there are exceptions with targets like open clusters. But for nebulae and other objects, the ...

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There’s a new contender for the universe’s earliest first-generation stars. A bright clump seen about 450 million years after the Big Bang has the chemical hallmarks of first-generation stars — ...

Supermassive black holes are ravenous. Clumps of dust and gas are prone to being disrupted by the turbulence and radiation when they are pulled too close. So why are some of them orbiting on the edge ...

Made up of three of summer’s brightest stars, the Summer Triangle is an easy starting point for exploring—and photographing—the Milky Way and beyond.

Our sun may be responsible for life on Earth, but stars across the galaxy are also responsible for creating a plethora of elements on the period table. These are some of the building blocks of life as ...

Every night before bedtime, I take my dogs outside to do their doggy business, letting them run around in the yard on the eastern side of my house. I live under very dark skies in rural Virginia, and ...