Researchers from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have revealed for the first time how gas flows from vast distances toward the disk surrounding a ...

A maelstrom of star formation close to the center of our galaxy has been revealed in two different wavelengths by the James ...

In the latest discovery made possible by the James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astrophysicists detected six wandering rogue planets unbound from the gravitational influence of any star. The ...

The researchers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), combined with maser astrometry—a way to measure the positions of gas using microwaves—to trace the complete process of gas ...

Starting from the upper left and moving clockwise from large to small scales: upper left —"spiral-like" system; upper right — "bar-like" structure; lower right — rotating infalling envelope; lower ...