Webb's Near-Infrared Camera view shows at least two or three distinct outflows of gas — jets stretching in different ...

The 'planetary nebula', not to be confused with protoplanetary disk, is shed outer layers of a star heavier than sun, and it's mass can, i'd guess, vary from below solar mass, to above solar mass.

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the astronomers said. A gaseous disk surrounding the young star is the first stages of ...

Jones-Emberson 1, sometimes called the Headphone Nebula due to its distinct shape, is a great challenge target for backyard ...

Although IC 5148 is a type of object called a planetary nebula, it has nothing to do with planets (except that the dead star at its center probably ate a few of them) and actually stems from a ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed the formation of planets around a distant star, shedding light on our own solar system's birth.

A rare form of helium may have flooded Earth’s core during the planet’s formation in the hot, early stage of our solar system, according to a study published this week. Measuring that helium ...

Determining when the solar nebula dissipated sets the time for gas-driven planetary migration and for how long giant planets can grow (that is because they grow by accreting gas), says Borlina.

This work in progress is situated in the Orion Nebula, a luminous cloud of interstellar gas and dust about 1,500 light-years away. Its star is about 1 million years old—a baby, in astronomy terms.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- About 4.6 billion years ago, an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas and dust collapsed under its own weight, eventually flattening into a disk called the solar nebula. Most of this ...