Planetary nebulae represent a brief but crucial phase in the life cycle of low- to intermediate-mass stars (1–8 M⊙). After exhausting hydrogen and helium in their cores, such stars ascend the ...

“These fragments may be the remains of once-larger clouds that have been shredded by the enormous energy being released by young and massive stars, a process dubbed feedback,” says Tony Wong, who led ...

Deep within the Orion Nebula, researchers are one step closer to understanding how Jupiter-mass binary objects (JuMBOs) form—a longstanding mystery in astrophysics The recent discovery of JuMBOs in ...

Nebulae are some of the most beautiful structures to be found in space: vast clouds of dust and gas that are illuminated by light from nearby stars. These regions are often busy sites of star ...