Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way, is densely packed with stars and complex magnetic fields.
Space. It's really, really big. How big is it? Well, according to astronomers, the observable universe is around 92 billion light-years in diameter, but that's all we can see (hence the word ...
NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region. The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a ...
Supernova remnants, stellar nurseries and more populate the new edge-on view of the Milky Way as seen from Earth’s southern hemisphere.
For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And ...
"No low-frequency radio image of the entire Southern Galactic Plane has been published before, making this an exciting ...
Webb’s MIRI, managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory through launch, helped reveal the star-studded Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud in unprecedented detail. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...
Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have created the largest low-frequency radio ...
Astronomers may have found the universe’s first stars formed after the Big Bang, using JWST data and gravitational lensing.