This gorgeous image shows a fiery stunner called the Rosette Nebula that ... matter through gravity until these clumps ...

WOH G64 is what's known as a red giant, a star nearing the end of its life, running out of hydrogen fuel. Through this ...

Extreme stars may possess mountains similar to those found on moons in our solar system, potentially creating detectable ...

Strangely enough, Medvedev describes the Crab Pulsar as having a zebra pattern because its emissions exhibit an unusual band ...

New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the "Guitar Nebula" shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and ...

The Tarantula Nebula—also called 30 Doradus—is ... making the region perfect for studying how gas clouds collapse under gravity to form new stars. "What makes 30 Doradus unique is that it ...

Within this nebula, the hot core of the star remains—crushed to high density by gravity—as a white dwarf with temperatures over 180,000 degrees Fahrenheit (100,000 degrees Celsius).

The Carina Nebula is home to a million of stars. The image has been formed with ... which can get pulled together into clumps by gravity. Eventually, a clump will get so big that it collapses ...

Stars like our Sun are originally formed from a nebula. A nebula is a giant cloud of mainly hydrogen gas and dust in space. Gravity pulled a lot of the gas and dust together and a protostar formed.