"The goal of this project was to explore the fundamental low-mass limit of the star and brown dwarf formation process." ...

How do rogue planetary-mass objects – celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size – come into existence? An ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made a groundbreaking discovery in the Flame Nebula, a star-forming region ...

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows a stunning and fashionable sight: the Sombrero Galaxy, named for its resemblance to the traditional Mexican hat. With its wide, flat shape ...

In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of ...

The Flame Nebula, located 1,400 light-years from Earth, is a region where many stars are forming and is less than a million ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope unveils 10 stunning images of forming stars, capturing mesmerising details of their birth, chaotic outflows, and glowing cosmic clouds in space.

Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. It is classified as a planetary nebula, an ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has identified free-floating brown dwarfs in the Flame Nebula, some as small as two to ...

Astronomers used the powerful James Webb Space Telescope to sleuth out some of these objects, called brown dwarfs, in a vibrant star-forming region of our galaxy called the Flame Nebula. Brown dwarfs ...

Co-author Martin Guerrero from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia told Phys.org that debris from the shattered planet ...