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 ...

Vast clouds of gas within it slowly collapse to form new stars. In turn, these light up the gas clouds in a riot of colors, visible in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/NASA ...

Molecular clouds are very cold, having temperatures ranging from about -440 to -370 degrees Fahrenheit, and their size can vary from just a few light years up to 600 light years (one light year is ...

Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed large-scale radio observations of a ...

Also, it would be nice to have clear skies on June 16 or June 17, when Mars and Leo's brightest star Regulus will be in conjunction. On either night, look about a third of the way up in the ...

The cloud, named Eos, is chock-full of molecular hydrogen and possibly rife with star-forming potential in the future. By Katrina Miller Stars and planets are born inside swirling clouds of cosmic ...

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 ...

More clouds, still quite nice to end the weekend. We continue with dry and comfortable conditions right into the start of the work week across South-Central PA. Updated: 7:21 AM EDT Aug 11, 2024 ...