The Oort cloud is traditionally thought of as a vast shell of perhaps trillions of icy objects encasing our solar system, serving as the final boundary between us and the dark reaches of interstellar ...

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As stars age, they often shed their skins, so to speak, casting off expansive shells of dust and gas into interstellar space. As stars age, they often shed their skins, so to speak, casting off ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve out glowing paths.The space observatory can see the universe in infrared light ...

Astronomers have found a distinct structure involving spiral arms in the reservoir of gas and dust disk surrounding the young star Elias 2-27. While spiral features have been observed on the surfaces ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has been returning stunning images of distant spiral galaxies for decades, but you've never seen spirals like these before. The new James Webb Space Telescope has just ...