CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A massive cradle of baby stars has been observed in new detail by a European space telescope, adding to its celestial collection of images. The European Space Agency ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A European space telescope observed a massive cradle of baby stars in new detail, adding to its celestial collection of images. The European Space Agency released the ...

But this glowing cradle of newborn stars also gives astronomers ... material that hasn't been pushed away yet by growing stars. The massive stars, many times larger than the sun, are able to ...

Yet, despite decades of research, aspects of star formation are as mysterious as the dense, dark clouds of gas in which baby stars ... also infer that two massive young stars near the center ...

Researchers have found that stars in the early ... of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby star. Also called molecular clouds, these regions of space can be massive, spanning hundreds of light ...

Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA) and Thavisha Dharmawardena (NYU) The birthplace of stars begins within large ... and scientists just discovered a massive one lurking in our celestial neighborhood.

Its heft carries weight in an ongoing debate over how the most massive stars form. A year ago ... observations show a circumstellar disk - the cradle of planets - in the process of forming ...

“The pockets of white light represent clusters of young stars. One cluster at the heart of 30 Doradus houses the most massive stars astronomers have ever found.” Located within the Large ...