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Webb Links Protostellar Bursts to Crystal Formation and Outflows in EC 53

MIRI spectra identified forsterite, enstatite forming in the hot inner disk during outbursts.

New Images and Holiday Sky Guides Spotlight the Christmas Tree Cluster

Pleiades Recast as Core of a Vast 'Greater Pleiades' Stellar Family

ESO Telescope Reveals Bat-Shaped Stellar Nursery 10,000 Light-Years Away

JWST Study Flags Four Possible ‘Dark Stars,’ Including One With Tentative Helium Signature

Astronomers Report Most Metal-Poor Star Yet From the Large Magellanic Cloud

Hubble’s New NGC 2775 Portrait Deepens the Mystery of a Hybrid Galaxy

Astronomers Confirm Rare Quadruple System Pairing Two Red Dwarfs With Two T-Type Brown Dwarfs

Rare Jet-Driven Bubble Warps Protoplanetary Disk in WSB 52

Mineral Condensation Captured in Planet-Forming Disk of Protostar HOPS-315

First Solids of Planet Formation Observed Around Young Star HOPS-315

Researchers Poised to Decode Cosmic Dawn’s 21-Centimeter Signal

Saturn-Sized Exoplanet Orbits Record-Low Mass Star, Challenging Formation Theories