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.

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

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

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 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.