star formation

Neutron stars are arguably the most exotic objects in the universe.

With the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observation, astronomers led by Shigehisa Takakuwa, Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica (ASIAA), Taiwan, found spiral arms of molecular gas and dust around the “baby twin” stars, binary protostars. Gas motions to supply materials to the twin were also identified. These observational results unveil, for the first time, the mechanism of the birth and growth of binary stars, which are ubiquitous throughout the universe.

This mosaic image of the bright starforming region, 30 Doradus, has been released to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

Extremely distant elliptical galaxies have been observed as they were about 10 billion years ago undergoing intense star formation.

A massive cloud of hydrogen gas is being disrupted by its violent adolescent star a few thousand light-years away towards the constellation of Cygnus.