The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation.

Astronomers have discovered a vast, dense cluster of massive galaxies just 1 billion years after the Big Bang, each forming ...

When astronomers look deep into the early universe, the expectation is simple. You should see young galaxies still assembling ...

Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual "ingredients," raising ...

Stars form in the universe from massive clouds of gas. European Southern Observatory, CC BY-SA For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars ...

Theorists have long wondered how massive stars–up to 120 times the mass of the Sun–can form without blowing away the clouds of gas and dust that feed their growth. But the problem turns out to be less ...

Astronomers find galaxy Y1, a young star-forming region, revealing extreme heat just 600 million years after the Big Bang.

Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such systems ...

While this eerie NASA Hubble Space Telescope image may look ghostly, it's actually full of new life. Lupus 3 is a ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very ...

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