News Space

Herschel Space Observatory sees stars being born

Infrared telescope penetrates the heart of a stellar nursery

By Ron Cowen

This article is only available to Science News subscribers.

Subscribers, enter your e-mail address to access our archives.

Not a subscriber?

Science News is a nonprofit.

Support us by subscribing now.

More Stories from Science News on Space

  1. Magnetar illustration
    Space

    Neutrinos could reveal how fast radio bursts are launched

    By Lisa Grossman
  2. astronaut on moon
    Space

    How do you clean up clingy space dust? Zap it with an electron beam

    By Jack J. Lee
  3. Akatsuki spacecraft
    Space

    Phosphine gas found in Venus’ atmosphere may be ‘a possible sign of life’

    By Lisa Grossman
  4. MACSJ1206.2-0847 galaxy cluster
    Space

    Dark matter clumps in galaxy clusters bend light surprisingly well

    By Maria Temming
  5. GW Orionis illustration
    Space

    A weirdly warped planet-forming disk circles a distant trio of stars

    By Lisa Grossman
  6. Colliding black hole illustration
    Physics

    Record-breaking gravitational waves reveal that midsize black holes do exist

    By Emily Conover
  7. enstatite chondrite
    Planetary Science

    Earth’s building blocks may have had far more water than previously thought

    By Christopher Crockett
  8. Sun's magnetic field
    Astronomy

    Check out the first-ever map of the solar corona’s magnetic field

    By Lisa Grossman

From the Nature Index

Paid Content