Interstellar maps can help scientists find patterns that tell them about fundamental chemical processes in the cosmos.
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Astronomers want to understand how spiral galaxies form and get their massive spiral arms.
Two new studies challenge scientists’ previous theories on how the very first stars in the universe formed.
A new, more detailed study of 1,000 distant galaxies explains why some gas-rich galaxies don’t produce as many stars as you’d expect.
Elliptical galaxies have long provided a headache for astronomers.
Life showed up really early on Earth – it needed complex carbon molecules to do so. A new discovery hints that these molecules can survive the harsh conditions when stars are born.
Some of the earliest galaxies found with JWST are also the brightest. That’s a problem for our ideas about the universe.
When astronomers focused on the galaxy NGC 4383, they didn’t expect the data to be so spectacular. This is the first detailed map of gas flowing from this galaxy as stars burst within.
Analysis of fragments of the first solids that emerged out of the birth of the sun date our supernova as being 4.6 billion years old.
An attempt to study gas in one galaxy with the MeerKAT radio telescope detected 49 other galaxies instead.
One of the few examples of a fast radio burst and the slow-moving, star forming gas in its origin galaxy has been linked together – thanks to observations from a CSIRO telescope.
Astronomers have long known where water is first formed in the universe and how it ends up on planets, asteroids and comets. A recent discovery has finally answered what happens in between.
An astronomer takes us on a tour of the universe to learn about the birth of stars and planets and how they get their spin.
We may have a stolen planet in our own Solar System.
Studying the extreme environment of the Virgo Cluster — which comprises thousands of galaxies — helps us learn what factors can affect and start or stop star formation.
Gravitational waves reveal the demise of super-dense neutron stars spiralling into their black hole companions - the first time such strange and exotic star systems have ever been observed.
Thirty years ago the Hubble Space Telescope began snapping photos of distant stars, providing a time machine that has taken astronomers back to when the universe was less than a billion years old.
Why isn’t there an endless variety of planets in the universe? An astrophysicist explains why planets only come in two flavors.
Astronomers have indirectly spotted some of the first stars in the universe by making their most distant detection of oxygen in a galaxy that existed just 500m years after the Big Bang.
A three-dimensional look and listen at a dark cloud in space sheds new light on the mystery of how our solar system formed billions of years ago.
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