HH 30 is a luminous region surrounding a newborn star, or protostar. The James Webb Space Telescope helped reveals unprecedented details of it.

Here are top five images by NASA Hubble space telescope: This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust that looks a little like a caterpillar is a newborn star – a protostar.

Day 18 of the 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: an energetic protostar. FS Tau is a multi-star system made up of FS Tau A, the bright starlike object near the middle of the image, and FS Tau B ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on the Universe since its launch.

Hubble telescope scientists said the baby star object (or protostar) is the most powerful such stellar strobe found to date. But understanding what's causing the flashing light is difficult ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a belching protostar in its infancy. By studying the dust grains whirling around ...

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A protostar, HH 34, is captured in this image, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that will eventually form planets. The Orion Nebula, a nursery for new stars, is showcased in this breathtaking ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.