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

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 ...

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

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

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

Caption This image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and shows a starburst galaxy named MCG+07-33-027. This galaxy lies some 300 million light ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...