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Stars Are Born and Die Every Day - Here's How They Evolve in Space

Our sun may be responsible for life on Earth, but stars across the galaxy are also responsible for creating a plethora of elements on the period table. These are some of the building blocks of life as ...
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The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as astronomers thought

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...
Salon

A recipe for baby stars: Just add fluffy molecular clouds

To understand how the universe was formed and how we got here, ancient stars are some of the best objects to study — yet astronomers know surprisingly little about the conditions in which they were ...
Nature

How massive stars form

Astrophysicists have discovered how ‘Galactic snake’, a serpentine-shaped molecular cloud, 9,523 light years away from Earth, is spawning massive stars 1. These stars, eight times heavier than the Sun ...
The Conversation

How do atoms form? A physicist explains where the atoms that make up everything around come from

Stephen L. Levy receives funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. He is affiliated with CyteQuest, Inc. Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist who ...
Ars Technica

The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as we thought

For decades, astronomers have wondered what the very first stars in the universe were like. These stars formed new chemical elements, which enriched the universe and allowed the next generations of ...
The Conversation

The first stars may not have been as uniformly massive as astronomers thought

Luke Keller does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...