Day 2 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Stellar Nursery
Reflection nebula GN 04.32.8 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, about 480 light-years away, shows dust-enshrouded young stars and a protostar hidden in a protoplanetary disk.
How University of Galway researchers helped to discover new 'gas giant' planet similar in size to Jupiter
A roughly 5-million-year-old, Jupiter-sized gas giant named WISPIT 2b was directly imaged forming around a Sun-like young star within a multi-ringed dust disk.