The star-forming region called Sagittarius B2 contains half of the galactic center's stars, yet only 10% of the gas.

Astronomers have long sorted galaxies into types based on their visible structure. Spiral galaxies, like our Milky Way, have ...

New data from the James Webb Space Telescope may solve a riddle from the universe’s beginnings. A compact, distant object ...

Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning new images of Sagittarius B2, a highly active star-forming region near ...

An international team of astronomers has performed photometric and spectroscopic observations of a compact stellar system ...

Star formation is a fundamental physical process in our universe. Stars light up the cosmos, and give rise to planets, some ...

The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky splash of light below is in fact the elliptical galaxy Messier 110, which plays ...

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years ...

Cosmic dust, it turns out, isn’t made of miniature rocks. It’s fluff. A comprehensive analysis of data from space missions, ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...