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  1. NASA's Hubble Tracks a Roaming Magnetar of Unknown Origin

    April 15, 2025Release ID: 2025-010 Missions: Hubble

    Highly magnetic neutron star is wandering our Milky Way galaxy.

    An artist’s impression of a magnetar, which is a special type of neutron star with an incredibly strong magnetic field. The neutron star at the center of the image is illustrated as a mottled blue-white sphere with a bright edge and streamers looping off it. Concentric blue lines wrap around the neutron star, like a cage, from upper right to lower left to symbolize the intense magnetic field the star possesses. The words "artist's concept" are at bottom right.

  2. With NASA's Webb, Dying Star's Energetic Display Comes Into Full Focus

    April 14, 2025Release ID: 2025-118 Missions: Webb

    Only the James Webb Space Telescope has the ability to fully detail this planetary nebula’s dusty rings with its unique mid-infrared camera.

    What looks like a single large, bright blue star (but is two) is centered, surrounded by the shape of a short cylinder at an angle in a mix of orange and blue.

  3. NASA Webb's Autopsy of Planet Swallowed by Star Yields Surprise

    April 10, 2025Release ID: 2025-117 Missions: Webb

    Lingering brightness provides evidence for how planet met its demise.

    An illustration of a star after it has swallowed its own planet. The star look like an orange globe with flares coming out of various sides. A dark orange horizontal ring of material circles the host star. There is a very transparent cloud of blue dust spread out from the star.

  4. NASA Webb Explores Effect of Strong Magnetic Fields on Star Formation

    April 02, 2025Release ID: 2025-115 Missions: Webb

    Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the region’s strong magnetic fields.

    Processed data collected by the MeerKAT radio telescope shows the plane of the Milky Way galaxy, with a graphic pullout highlighting a much smaller region on the right, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared light observations. The MeerKAT image is colored in blue, cyan, and yellow, with a very bright white-yellow center that indicates the location of the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole. Painterly bubbles of various sizes, clouds, and vertical brushstroke-like streaks make up the radio image. The Webb inset shows stars and gas clouds in red, with an arching cloud of bright cyan that contains many straight, needle-like features that appear more crystalline than cloudy.

  5. 20-Year Hubble Study of Uranus Yields New Atmospheric Insights

    March 31, 2025Release ID: 2025-011 Missions: Hubble

    Uranus findings can aid the study of exoplanets.

    Graphic titled “Hubble Space Telescope – Observations of Uranus,” with 16 images of Uranus, arranged in a 4 by 4 grid showing changes in appearance of Uranus as observed by Hubble between 2002 and 2022.

  6. NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2025

    March 31, 2025Release ID: 2025-012 Missions: STScI, Hubble

    The NHFP enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA Astrophysics, using theory, observations, simulations, experimentation, or instrument development.

    The class of 2025 NHFP Fellows are shown in this photo montage (left to right, top to bottom): The Einstein Fellows (seen in the blue hexagons) are: Shi-Fan Chen, Nicolas Garavito Camargo, Jason Hinkle, Itai Linial, Kenzie Nimmo, Massimo Pascale, Elia Pizzati, Jillian Rastinejad and Aaron Tohuvavohu. The Hubble Fellows (seen in the red hexagons) are: Aliza Beverage, Anna de Graaff, Karia Dilbert, Emily Griffith, Viraj Karambelkar, Lindsey Kwok, Abigail Lee, Aaron Pearlman, Dominick Rowan, Nicholas Rui, Nadine Soliman, Bingjie Wang. The Sagan Fellows (seen in green hexagons) are: Kyle Franson, Caprice Phillips, and Keming Zhang.

  7. STScI Astronomer Carol Christian Elected AAAS Fellow

    March 27, 2025Release ID: 2025-402 Missions: STScI, Hubble

    Dr. Christian is being honored by the AAAS for exceptional leadership in bringing astronomy and astronomy images to the broader range of the public, notably the seeing impaired.

    Woman with blue sky and puffy white clouds in the background. She has short blonde wind-swept hair. She is wearing dark sunglasses and a green tee-shirt with a V-shaped neckline and short sleeves.

  8. NASA's Webb Sees Galaxy Mysteriously Clearing Fog of Early Universe

    March 26, 2025Release ID: 2025-116 Missions: Webb

    Unexpected, bright hydrogen emission caught astronomers by surprise.

    A two panel image. At left, hundreds of tiny galaxies are scattered across the black background of space. A small portion of the sky near the bottom is outlined with a white box. Lines extend from the corners of the box to the right panel. At right, a small red dot at the middle is highlighted with white lines and labeled redshift z = 13. At upper left, a face-on spiral galaxy is labeled z = 0.63. At lower right, an edge-on spiral galaxy is labeled z = 0.70. A handful of other small background galaxies are seen against the black background of space. At lower right, the panel is labeled JADES-GS-z-13-1.

  9. NASA's Webb Captures Neptune's Auroras For First Time

    March 26, 2025Release ID: 2025-104 Missions: Webb

    Long-sought auroral glow finally emerges under Webb’s powerful gaze.

    A two-panel horizontal image. On the left is Neptune, as seen from the Hubble Space Telescope. It is a blue circle, tilted about 25 degrees to the left. There are white smudges at 7 o’clock and just above 5 o’clock. At the right is an opposing view of the planet, using data from Hubble and Webb. It is a multi-hued blue orb. There are white smudges in the same spots as the image on the left, but also at the center of the planet and at the top. There are cyan smudges vertically along the right side, with the top of the smudging more translucent than the bottom.

  10. NASA's Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornado 

    March 24, 2025Release ID: 2025-112 Missions: Webb, STScI

    Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy.

    Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is a cone-shaped orange-red cloud known as Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. Along the cone there are additional rounded edges, like edges of a wave, and intricate foamy-like details, as well as a clearer view of the black background of space. In the upper left, overlapping with the rounded end of Herbig-Haro 49/50, is a background spiral galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outward to blend with red spiral arms. The background of space is speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies throughout.

  11. NASA's Webb Images Young, Giant Exoplanets, Detects Carbon Dioxide

    March 17, 2025Release ID: 2025-114 Missions: Webb

    Findings suggest giant exoplanets in HR 8799 system likely formed like Jupiter and Saturn.

    This image shows the planetary system HR 8799. The background is black. At the center there is a symbol representing a star labeled HR 8799. The star’s light is blocked. There are four exoplanets, which look like fuzzy dots, pictured surrounding the star. Furthest from the star is a fuzzy, faint blue dot, labeled b, at the 10 o’clock position. At the 1 o’clock position, second furthest from the star is a blueish-white fuzzy dot labeled c. Just below that is an orange dot labeled e. At the 4 o’clock position, still near the star, is another fuzzy white dot labeled d.

  12. NASA's Webb Peers Deeper into Mysterious Flame Nebula

    March 10, 2025Release ID: 2025-105 Missions: Webb

    New population census answers the question: How small can you go when forming stars and brown dwarfs?

    A collage of three near-infrared images showing a dusty nebula. The left two-thirds of the collage is taken up by a Hubble image of the nebula. The remaining third is taken up by two Webb images, one atop the other. The Hubble image has a pillar of dense brown dust running through the nebula at a diagonal from 5 o’clock to 11 o’clock. Wispy plumes appear to fly off from the pillar toward the sides amid blue clouds of the same material, which are whiter near the pillar. There are many white stars spread throughout. Two separate, white squares, tilted about 30 degrees, outline two areas in the pillar. The upper square has the letter “A” to the top right, while the lower square is marked by the letter “B”. These labels correspond to the two, magnified images of the nebula at right, with the top image also labeled “A” and the bottom image labeled “B”. Both images contain a mixture of reds, blues and browns, and show red, blue, and white stars.

  13. NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System

    March 07, 2025Release ID: 2025-111 Missions: Webb

    This near-infrared image shows the history of ejections from the two actively forming stars in Lynds 483.

    At the center is a thin vertical cloud known as Lynds 483 (L483) that is roughly shaped like an hourglass with irregular edges. The lower lobe is slightly cut off. The top lobe is seen in full, petering out at the top.

  14. NASA's Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio

    March 04, 2025Release ID: 2025-007 Missions: Hubble

    A potential triple system of Kuiper Belt objects, only the second ever found, would support the theory that these rocky bodies form by gravitational collapse, like stars.

    Illustration of two large, cratered rocks in the foreground right. Another rock is seen in the distance to the left. The black background of space shows the hazy Sun and zodiacal light due to dust in the solar system, as well as scattered distant stars. The words "Artist's Concept" appear in gray at the bottom left.

  15. NASA's Webb Exposes Complex Atmosphere of Starless Super-Jupiter

    March 03, 2025Release ID: 2025-106 Missions: Webb

    Webb has captured evidence for patchy cloud layers, high-altitude hot spots, and variations in chemistry around a rapidly rotating, free-floating object 20 light-years from Earth. 

    Illustration of a gas giant planet or brown dwarf on a background of distant stars.

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