When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The James Webb Space Telescope recently caught this stunning image of a young star with its ...

When you think about how our own Earth formed billions of years ago, the picture is still a mystery filled with many many gaps. Astronomers know that stars are born in giant clouds of gas and dust, ...

This spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows a star cocooned within a massive disk of gas and dust. It's a protoplanetary disk — a ring of dense gas and dust surrounding ...

Across the galaxy, stars are born in immense clouds of gas and dust — stellar nurseries where gravity coaxes material to coalesce and ignite. Around many of these newborn stars, the surrounding gas ...