The Earth sits in a 1,000 light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars, but how did those stars form? “This is really an origin story; for the first time we can explain how all nearby ...

The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form? In a paper appearing Wednesday in Nature, astronomers at the Center for ...

Artist's illustration of the Local Bubble with star formation occurring on the bubble's surface. Scientists have now shown how a chain of events beginning 14 million years ago with a set of powerful ...

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