Astronomers have long sought-after finer details of this cosmic web to explain the incredible rate of star formation
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Large radio telescope finds the earliest example of galaxies merging
Two galaxies have been seen merging 13 billion years ago, less than a billion years after the Universe was born
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A dwarf galaxy 3,000 light years away is forming stars at an unusually incredible rate
More unusually for its size, ESO 495-21 could have a supermassive black hole hiding at its core
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Astronomers could have identified a star from outside the Milky Way
Analysis of the star’s chemical composition indicates that it could have originated from a dwarf galaxy that then merged with the Milky Way
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Young stars spotted nestled closely together
Astronomers have been able to simulate the closest and most massive young binary stellar system
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Winds and magnetic fields can align to create stars at ridiculous rate
NASA’s airborne observatory has shown how galactic winds and magnetic fields could explain why the Cigar Galaxy is creating stars at an impressive rate
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How collisions between galaxies can lead to their demise
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescopes has been watching galactic collisions unfold and understand what it means for their future
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Magnetic fields found to strongly influence star formation
Using supercomputer simulations, this astronomer was able to understand how magnetic fields interact with stellar winds in star forming clouds
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Astronomers discover dwarf galaxies are being stripped of star formation fuel
New simulations of distant dwarf galaxies show they can have their gas stolen by a larger galaxy, similar to the two Magellanic Clouds encompassing the Milky Way
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Students identify the foundations for massive stars
Undergraduate students of the University of Arizona searched 101 clouds of gas to find those that may be in the first phases of forming massive stars
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Supercomputer simulates star formation
Researchers have developed computer simulations that show the evolution of stars from massive clouds of gas
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Planets form before their host star matures
This discovery comes from observations of the developing star TMC1A, located in the constellation Taurus
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Why do stars exist?
Stars are a fundamental part to our universe, but what purpose do they serve?
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Hubble compiles a complete ultraviolet catalogue of galaxies
50 galaxies within our cosmic backyard have been studied extensively in visible and ultraviolet images
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Astronomers detect the most distant oxygen ever discovered
This oxygen detection provides strong evidence that star formation occurred just 250 million years after the Big Bang
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Astronomers suggest the Milky Way could be growing every day
When observing galaxies very similar to the Milky Way, researchers have deduced that they are slowly expanding in size
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Astronomers uncover the mystery of the Rosette Nebula’s core
Computer simulations reveal why the size of the central cavity differs to the age of the inner stars unexpectedly
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Molecules could be broken and reborn in black hole splurges
The theory can explain why stars are created in the most extreme cosmic environments
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Alcohol could reveal the nature of cosmic magnetic fields
Analysing methanol molecules using radio astronomy can reveal how magnetic fields affect the formation of massive stars
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Astronomers hunt for stars inside the Tarantula Nebula
By using the stratospheric observatory SOFIA, researchers hope to see the birth of massive stars outside our Milky Way