Astronomers using the NSF VLA reveal a hidden hydrogen shell in the Orion Nebula, showing how young stars shape their environment with powerful stellar winds.

Since 1992, The Star Formation Newsletter has been the premier destination for keeping up with news from the star formation community. This is issue 402, covering new research postings in June of 2026...

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Since 1992, The Star Formation Newsletter has been the premier destination for keeping up with news from the star formation community. This is its 397th edition, covering new research postings in Janu...

While almost everything that astronomers study occurs in the vacuum of space, astronomy itself does not `happen in a vacuum'. Interactions between scientists, as well as outreach to members of the pub...

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Making histograms is a common way to estimate the true density distribution of a sample. But how can we choose the number of histogram bins? And if we get fancy and use kernel density estimation (K...

Open clusters are among the most useful and widespread tracers of Galactic structure. The completeness of the Galactic open cluster census, however, remains poorly understood. For the first time ever,...

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