The new Wildlife Health Centre is due to be built as the Zoological Society of London, which runs the zoo, celebrates its ...

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Nearly all stars are found inside or around galaxies, because that’s where the conditions are right for stars to form. Within galaxies, stars form inside cold, dense molecular gas clouds like those ...

Gas clouds do trigger bursts of star formation in merging galaxies through large-scale compression caused by gravitational interaction. When galaxies pass close to one another, their interstellar gas ...

In a groundbreaking observation, the James Webb Space Telescope captured unprecedented detail within the Small Magellanic Cloud. The images revealed hundreds of young stars forming in metal-poor ...

The discovery of 1I/Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS showed that significant numbers of interstellar objects populate interstellar space. Their omnipresence means that such objects also reside in ...

Starting from the upper left and moving clockwise from large to small scales: upper left —"spiral-like" system; upper right — "bar-like" structure; lower right — rotating infalling envelope; lower ...

Scientists generated the most precise three-dimensional image of star formation zones in the Milky Way galaxy using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. This map will reveal ...

If "chaos is a ladder," then brilliant stars forming from discordant gas and dust are the ultimate example of that. The James Webb telescope has imaged one of the more dramatic stellar nurseries in ...

Astronomers call ancient star clusters like NGC 1786 “time capsules” for their galaxy, preserving some of its oldest stars. A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope offers an unprecedented close ...

In the intriguing realm of star-forming galaxies, the key factor isn't the total amount of gas but rather its strategic distribution within the galaxy. Researchers at the International Centre for ...