The protostar within the dark cloud L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera ... Conscientious Galaxy Uses All Its Fuel To Make New Stars, ...

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A James Webb Space Telescope image of the protostar at the heart L1527 shows the turbulent cosmic hourglass shape it creates. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, Joseph DePasquale (STScI ...

The protostar is called G358.93-0.03-MM1 and is located in a star-forming region in the Milky Way about 22,000 light–years away. ... Like a galaxy’s spiral arms, the arms are probably formed by the ...

A star, hiding in plain sight within a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope, is one big baby.. Stars fascinate astronomers. Not all of them are like our Sun, the 4.6-billion-year-old heart of ...

Webb also resolves the “fuzzy” object located at the tip of the outflow into a distant spiral galaxy. The Spitzer image shows 3.6-micron light in blue, the 4.5-micron in green, and the 8.0 ...

The new evidence that IRAS 19312+1950 is a protostar, not an old star, is strong. For one, based on the star’s Doppler signatures, it’s shooting jets of gas out of its poles at the ...

The embryonic stellar monster, known as a protostar, ... The cloud —which is 500 times the mass of our sun — is the largest ever seen in our galaxy.