The Very Large Telescope in Chile has found, for the first time, an infant planet nestled in spiral arms of dust around a ...

Transparent dust clouds But for the other type of red giant stars, which are oxygen-rich, it has been a mystery how their material is blown out into space.

The structure, named the Midpoint cloud, is an example of a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC). It was discovered by the team using ...

Nearby Dust Clouds In The Milky WayThe yearly ritual of spring cleaning clears a house of dust as well as dust “bunnies,” those pesky dust balls that frolic under beds and behind furniture ...

Astronomers have identified a vast, previously unknown structure in our galaxy that could change how scientists understand ...

For roughly the last 100,000 years — a blink of an eye in cosmic time — a cloud of gas and dust has been passing through the open star cluster (a group of stars that formed from the same cloud ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Captures Cosmic Fireworks on an Hourglass-Shaped Dust Clouds Located approximately 460 light-years away, L1527 is embedded within a molecular cloud, a type of nebula.

A stunning new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the birth of a new, massive star at around 30 times the mass of our sun. Nestled with a nearby star-forming region called IRAS 16562-3959 ...

Astronomers can use that reddening and dimming to measure how much dust is inside the cloud. Using other techniques, they can also measure B68’s temperature.