NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spotted a region of the Milky Way that is building stars at a rapid pace. These so-called "Star Factories" are filled with gas and dust that form into all manner of ...

Stars are being mined in our backyard. That may be a bit of a stretch for something that's 6,400 light years away, but given the infinite reaches of outer space, the star factory that NASA's Hubble ...

ZITTAU – Nearly every day for the last 13 years, Jon Metzig has usually been at one of his family’s cheese factories by 5:30 a.m. He often starts work by coagulating milk — an important step to ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope peers at Sagittarius C, a star-forming region about 200 light-years from the Milky Way's central black hole. "A big question has been, if there is so much dense gas and ...

A new image of the Trifid Nebula, shows just why it is a firm favorite of astronomers, amateur and professional alike. This massive star factory is so named for the dark dust bands that trisect its ...

Astronomers have uncovered a galaxy that forms stars 180 times faster than our own Milky Way. Observations through the ALMA telescope, which is one of the largest in the world, revealed a previously ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that could potentially reshape our understanding of the universe’s formative years. They have uncovered a hidden superheated star factory in the early ...

The Orion Nebula is one of the best must-see attractions in the Pottsville sky, and it is even more impressive once you get to know more about this gargantuan star factory. There is enough material ...

The galaxy Arp 220 is home to several giant star clusters–about 10 million solar masses–that are twice as massive as any comparable star cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy. McMaster University’s ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory has discovered an extremely distant galaxy making stars more than 2,000 times faster than our Milky Way Galaxy. Seen at a time when the ...