As science journalists, we are fortunate at Physics World that the stories we cover are often highly visual. Physics and astronomy are full of eye-catching imagery – the scientific results, the ...

The new simulations show a cross section of the star and its surrounding disk of gas. In the left image, where the young star is weakly magnetized, gas can be seen flowing freely from the surrounding ...

NASA's new super space telescope was built to provide never-before-seen glimpses of outer space. But these incredible James Webb images are more than just beautiful mosaics of nearby galaxies — they ...

The condensation of diffuse matter into stars or black holes requires the loss of both angular momentum and energy, and whereas angular momentum can be removed or redistributed in a number of ways 1, ...