The James Webb Space Telescope is investigating the Flame Nebula, hunting for "failed stars" to better understand how brown ...

More massive stars than the Sun have a very different life cycle and follow the right hand path in the diagram above: \(\begin{equation} \begin{aligned} Nebula \rightarrow protostar \rightarrow ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula. Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars ...

The nebula collapsed under its own gravity and ... The hot core in the centre is called a protostar. The collapsing and joining together of gas and dust under gravity is called accretion.

This collage of images from the Flame Nebula shows a near-infrared light ... A core with enough mass becomes a protostar that will begin the fusion of hydrogen. This results in outward energy ...