Massive stars can wreak havoc on their surroundings, ... Stars; Tortured Clouds | Space Wallpaper. Wallpapers. By Space.com Staff published 11 September 2013 ...

The Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile captured this space wallpaper of dark cloud Lupus 4 blotting out background stars.

What if the secrets of the early universe are written not in distant galaxies, but in the gas and dust of our galactic ...

Northwestern University's Farhad Zadeh has discovered a new tool for detecting dusty clouds and stars in the center of the Milky Way galaxy: simply take a picture using radio waves. Unlike in the ...

Dying stars, clouds on exoplanets: What the James Webb Space Telescope reveals The James Webb Space Telescope, the largest, most powerful observatory ever put into space, ...

A never-before-seen type of star that puffs out enormous clouds challenges our ideas of what happens when giant stars reach the end of their lives. Close. Advertisement. Skip to content.

Researchers have found that stars in the early universe may have formed from 'fluffy' molecular clouds. Using the ALMA telescope to observe the Small Magellanic Cloud -- whose environment is ...

A team of physicists from the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions ...

Stars are born deep inside giant molecular clouds which can be hundreds of light years wide, and spread across a galaxy. Star birth takes place when the cold gas and dust in these clouds reaches a ...