Molecular clouds are composed of gas and dust and serve a vital purpose in star formation ... What's more, the novel technique used to unveil the ball of gas could redefine how astronomers search the ...

Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA) and Thavisha Dharmawardena (NYU) The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the weight of gravity.

The vast ball of hydrogen, long invisible to scientists ... Molecular clouds are composed of gas and dust – with the most common molecule being hydrogen, the fundamental building block of ...

A breathtaking new image of the famous Eagle Nebula captures a towering pillar of gas and dust sculpted by intense stellar radiation. The Eagle Nebula, also known as Messier 16, is located about ...

NGC 1514 is sometimes called the Crystal Ball Nebula, but in this new image ... "As it evolved, it puffed up, throwing off layers of gas and dust in a very slow, dense stellar wind," David Jones ...