Before something like the Solar System can be born, things in the general neighborhood start out as something known as a protostellar disk. These objects are essentially flat accretions of dust and ...

A protostarjust 200 years old has been observed ejecting gas and energy in sudden bursts, a phenomenon astronomers liken to “sneezing.” Detected in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, this behavior could ...

The protostellar object OH 339.88-1.26, which lies 8 900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ara, lurks in this dust-filled image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Winding lanes of ...

Traditionally, star formation has been associated with the gradual accumulation of material within natal envelopes, cool and dense regions in the larger molecular cloud. Once the core density reaches ...

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When it comes to finding baby, still-forming planets around young stars, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observatory is astronomers' most adept tool. ALMA has delivered many ...

Researchers have uncovered the physical and chemical effects of the impact of a protostellar jet in the interior of the Orion Nebula. The observations show evidence of compression and heating produced ...

RIKEN astrophysicists may have identified the embryos of gas giant planets in a disk of gas and dust swirling around a newborn star 1. These planetary precursors may grow up to be similar to Jupiter, ...

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