Stars don't form out of nothing, but tracking the gas and dust that do eventually form stars is hard. They float around the ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

In brilliant new images, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured a rare glimpse at the gaseous "shrouds" that surround ...

Interstellar medium articles from across Nature Portfolio Atom RSS Feed Interstellar medium is the space between the stars. The interstellar medium is composed of gas (predominantly hydrogen and ...

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...

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This stunning 527-megapixel composite reveals both visible and infrared views of young stars, ionized gas, and dust filaments ...

A groundbreaking new survey from China’s LHAASO observatory has unveiled powerful ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emissions across ...

This boundary, known as the heliopause, marks where the gentle solar wind from our Sun gives way to the more turbulent, energetic particles of the interstellar medium. "It's an incredibly dynamic ...

The Owl Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula — a type of object that yields glimpses of stellar death in slow motion.