Halloween telescope image reveals bat-shaped stellar nursery where infant stars are born. The cosmic creature spans four full ...

Neutral atoms were formed just a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang. The very first stars began ionizing those atoms once again, but it took hundreds of millions of years of forming stars ...

The most prominent clouds here are RCW 94, which represents the right wing of the bat, and RCW 95, which forms the body, while the other parts of the bat have no official designation. Credit: ...

This new James Webb Space Telescope image features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537–the Red Spider Nebula. Using its ...

Indeed, the planetary nebula seen above, known as the Red Spider Nebula and imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), ...

The two best known satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds, are located in the southern sky at a distance of about 170,000 light-years. They host many giant nebular complexes with ...

BERKELEY, CA – In the electronics industry, thin metal films are deposited on silicon wafers with a sputter gun, which uses energetic ions – atoms with a positive charge – to knock the metal atoms off ...

A hydrogen atom can lose its electron and become ionized when it gets heated to temperatures of over 10,000°C (18,032°F). Now, researchers have discovered a cloud of ionized hydrogen towards the core ...

Most modern astronomers agree that the sun and its planets condensed from a single great cloud of gas. But they disagree, sometimes sharply, about the details of how it happened—and none of the ...

If you want to see what's out there in the Universe, you first have to be able to see. We take for granted, today, that the Universe is transparent to light, and that the light from distant objects ...