The Boomerang Nebula is classified as a protoplanetary nebula, thought to be a star system progressing toward the planetary nebula phase, the final stages of stellar evolution. Scientists believe ...

In order to improve and expand this understanding, Berne and colleagues have been granted further time on JWST to build a catalog of similar protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula. Astronomers ...

The Orion star cluster presents a dense group of young stars within protoplanetary disks that inhabit an area aged 30 million years. The circular disks include all planet-forming components, which ...

The bodies that didn’t melt are a type of meteorite known as chondrites - sedimentary rocks that formed in the early solar nebula. Because they didn't melt, they’re pristine samples of the original ...

This nebula, located 160,000 light-years away ... The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an extraordinary image of HH 30, a protoplanetary disk in the Taurus constellation.