The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

The ionized hydrogen gas seen among dark lanes of dust fuel the rapid birth of new stars, according to a statement from NASA ...

T he U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), in partnership with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), has developed StarBurst, a small satellite (SmallSat) instrument for NASA's StarBurst ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously ...

Astronomer Charles Steinhardt said most stars we see "might have formed under different conditions than we previously ...

Our new study of the nearby starburst galaxy Haro 11 has shown that strong X-ray-emitting superwinds may be a key mechanism enabling galaxies to leak ionizing radiation, which is believed to have ...

On the left is the starburst galaxy M82 as observed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2006. The small box at the galaxy’s core corresponds to the area captured so far by the NIRCam (Near ...

Starburst galaxies contain regions where stars form at such a breakneck speed that the galaxy devours its gas supply faster than it can be replenished, NASA and the European Space Agency said in ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking image of NGC 4536, a starburst galaxy brimming with intense stellar activity. Located 50 million light-years away in the Virgo ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

An analysis of two decades of data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided fresh insights into the complex atmospheric changes on Uranus that are largely driven by the effects of the sun's ...