This process known as accretion eventually becomes unstable leading to the formation of a protostar at the core. A protostar is the early stage in the life of a star where nuclear fusion is yet to ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has snapped a spectacular image of a "cosmic tornado" being burped out from a baby ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

A powerful “Cosmic Tornado” has received a high-definition glow-up thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

I. JWST/MIRI Spectroscopy and Imaging of a Class 0 Protostar IRAS 15398–3359" ApJL, 941, L13, 16pp (2022) 3. Satoshi Ohashi, Riouhei Nakatani, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Yichen Zhang, ...

Webb's exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy.

A newborn star’s fiery outburst has been caught in breathtaking detail by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, revealing a ...

The gravitational collapse of rotating, denser-than-average "cores" within a molecular cloud results in the creation of a central protostar surrounded by a ... where mass is transported inward toward ...

I. JWST/MIRI Spectroscopy and Imaging of a Class 0 Protostar IRAS 15398–3359" ApJL, 941, L13, 16pp (2022) 3. Satoshi Ohashi, Riouhei Nakatani, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Yichen Zhang, ...