Using the Dark Energy Camera astronomers have found a packed stellar nursery of infant stars in the dark nebula in the 180-light-year-wide Circinus West molecular cloud.

4.5 billion years ago the Sun was formed in a swirling cloud of dust and gas called the Solar Nebula. In a paper published by Nature Astronomy journal on April 28th, a team of internationally ...

As the Nebula collapsed, its temperature and ... Meteors are thought to be pieces left over from the formation of the solar system and some meteorites have been dated at 4.5 billion years old.

It's named Eos, after the Greek goddess of the dawn, and contains approximately 3,400 solar masses worth of gas.

Objects like these are sometimes known as "dark nebulae" because they are so dense with gas ... It's possible that our own solar system formed under similar conditions, the researchers wrote. So, in ...

Billions of years ago, in the frozen edges of the solar system, a violent impact shaped one of space’s oddest pairs. Instead ...

The Protoplanetary Disk and Planet Formation Approximately 4.6 billion years ago, our solar system originated from a vast cloud of gas and dust known as the solar nebula. As this nebula collapsed ...

It has even been found in meteorites originating from the formation of the solar nebula about 4.5 billion years ago. Prized as gemstones by some, sphalerite comes in an array of colors.

The scientists made a computer model of the solar nebula—the disk of gas and dust from which the Sun and planets formed 4.6 billion years ago. The primordial debris included icy grains ...

It's possible that our own solar system formed under similar conditions, the researchers wrote. So, in this cosmic battle of light and darkness, we may get a better understanding of our cosmic ...

Circinus West is a cold, dense cloud of gas and dust that stretches out for 180 light-years, around 60 times the size of our solar ... for star formation. Despite being a "dark nebula," the ...