Scientists have reconstructed what they call “the messy death of a multiple star system” using some of the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, plus existing data from the European ...

"Finally, we were able to take a detailed look at the rich array of multiple star systems in a massive star formation region!" study co-author Henrik Beuther, of the Max Planck Institute for ...

In a first, astronomers catch a multiple star system in the process of forming Date: February 11, 2015 Source: University of Massachusetts at Amherst Summary: This finding supports model ...

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation’s Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope to image a young, multiple-star system with unprecedented detail, yielding important clues about ...

Unlike our solitary Sun, most stars form in binary or multiple-star systems. However, astrophysicists haven’t learned a lot about how these complex stellar systems are born because they lack ...

Most Sun-sized or larger stars in the Universe are not single, like our Sun, but are members of multiple-star systems. Astronomers have been divided on how such systems can form, producing ...

For the first time, astronomers have caught a multiple-star system in the beginning stages of its formation, and their direct observations of this process give strong support to one of several ...

Luke Skywalker's backstory may not be so fanciful after all. Some alien planets in multiple-star systems — such as the two-sun Tatooine, Luke's home world in the "Star Wars" universe — may ...