Just 500 light years away, the Chamaeleon Complex, and in particular its dark cloud Chamaeleon I, is a hotbed of young, low-mass stars.

Now the telescope is giving astronomers clues about the formation of a new star, with a stunning image of an hourglass-shaped dark cloud surrounding a protostar, an object known as L1527.

These molecular clouds are often very dusty, so much so that patches of them become impenetrable to visible light, as we can see in this image of Chamaeleon I, taken by the 570-megapixel Dark ...

This image was captured with the 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam) mounted on the U.S. National Science Foundation Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at ...

The image is indeed genuine and showed a coronal hole that was photographed on the sun on Dec. 2, 2023. And nothing abnormal is depicted, as one social media post implied. An image post shared to ...

This cloud is known as Lupus 3 and it lies about 600 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius (the Scorpion). It is likely that the Sun formed in a similar star formation region ...

A cloud of "dark plasma" erupted from the sun on Sunday and is predicted to make contact with Earth on Wednesday, giving rise to the possibility of a minor geomagnetic storm.

Weathercatch: More rare, glow-in-the-dark clouds are gracing state’s skies than anytime in past 15 years Fri., July 15, 2022 The National Weather Service in Seattle captured this image of ...

Upon looking at images taken of Neptune between 1994 and 2022, scientists realized the planet's clouds almost totally vanished. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

An image from the Hubble Space Telescope shared this week by NASA shows a nearby galaxy, ESO 300-16. Unlike our Milky Way, which is a type called a spiral galaxy with a clear central bulge and ...

The origin of our sun, ... The Dark Energy Camera captured detailed images of the Chamaeleon I dark cloud, the closest active star-forming region to Earth at about 500 light-years away.