Dark cloud obscures hundreds of background stars. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 01 / 150107081659.htm. European Southern Observatory - ESO.

A new image from the APEX telescope in Chile shows a sinuous filament of cosmic dust more than ten light-years long. In it, newborn stars are hidden, and dense clouds of gas are on the verge of ...

Cowan has suggested that the cosmic microwave background could also be used to search for a hypothetical Planet Nine in the sun’s Oort cloud (SN: 7/23/16, p. 7).

In the computer simulation STARFORGE, a massive cloud of cosmic gas — roughly 20 parsecs, or 65 light-years, across — collapses to form new stars. White areas indicate denser regions of gas ...

Here we use sensitive near-infrared measurements of the light from background stars as it is absorbed and scattered by trace amounts of dust to probe the internal structure of the dark cloud ...

Scientists find giant, hidden gas cloud only 300 light-years away: 'This cloud is literally glowing in the dark' Astronomers see the 1st stars dispel darkness 13 billion years ago at 'Cosmic Dawn' ...

Some of the stars appear to be missing in this intriguing new ESO image. But the black gap in this glitteringly beautiful starfield is not really a gap, but rather a region of space clogged with ...