This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light ... A core with enough mass becomes a protostar that will begin the fusion of hydrogen. This results in outward energy ...

The two protostars at the center of the nebula are ejecting gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple. A protostar is an early-stage star formed by the collapse of dust and gas in space.

This breathtaking picture reveals a star 'destructing' - and possibly 'murdering' a nearby planet.The never-before-seen ...

As the protostar continues to gather material and ... One of the most renowned star-forming regions is the Orion Nebula. This stellar nursery is a bustling site for newborn stars, offering insight ...

Eventually, gravity causes some of these clumps to collapse, friction causes the material to heat up, and leads to a protostar – a baby star ... expanding cloud of dust and gas called a planetary ...

Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula. A huge bipolar outflow of gas and dust, grown from the tumultuous birth of ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has probed deep into the dusty shroud of a young nebula alight with star formation on the hunt for "failed star" brown dwarfs. Brown dwarfs are stellar ...

The mysterious X-rays could be the by-product of that annihilation. The Helix Nebula is an astounding ring of glowing gas with the star at its center. It was a star much like the Sun, but when it ...

Herbig-Haro objects like this one aren’t rare, but they do only occur under very specific circumstances related during a star’s earliest phases, when it is known as a protostar. A protostar ...