The Webb Space Telescope has captured a plume of gas and dust streaming from a star in the making, with a spiral galaxy as a stunning backdrop. The composite image makes it look as though the overflow ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

This image displays a galaxy known as ESO 486-21 (with several other background galaxies and foreground stars visible in the field as well). ESO 486-21 is a spiral galaxy -- albeit with a somewhat ...

Measuring light, known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), that traveled ... and helium that later developed into the first stars and galaxies. The team, which includes researchers from ...

The newborn stars belong to a cluster known as NGC 460, which is located in a region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way. NGC 460 is surrounded by a number of ...

This is an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near ... face-on spiral galaxy in the background. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. DePasquale, L.Hustak, G.

The outflow is about 625 light-years from Earth in one of the closest star-forming regions of ... But it was too fuzzy to make out the background galaxy and other details. Webb is the largest ...