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  1. NASA’s Webb Examines Cranium Nebula

    February 25, 2026Release ID: 2026-113 Missions: Webb

    The telescope used two instruments to capture mind-bending new views of the little-known nebula PMR 1.

    Side-by-side images of the same nebula show how differently it appears in near-infrared, on the left, versus mid-infrared light, on the right. Left image is labeled NIRCam and the right is labeled MIRI. In near-infrared, the nebula’s outer bubble has a white edge and its inner clouds are orange, with a distinct dark lane cutting vertically through the center. In mid-infrared, the outer bubble has a bluish tint and there is more material in the inner clouds, which are colored off-white. The vertical dark lane is still present but more interrupted and covered by the clouds.

  2. NASA’s Webb Telescope Locates Former Star That Exploded as Supernova

    February 23, 2026Release ID: 2026-112 Missions: Webb

    Webb shows star was surrounded by a vast shell of carbon-rich dust.

    An image labeled “SN 2025 p h t in NGC 1637, Hubble W F C 3 2024 + Webb NIRCam 2024”. Most of the image shows a face-on spiral galaxy speckled with myriad blue and red stars. The yellowish core of the galaxy forms a fuzzy oval tilted to the upper right. About halfway from the core to the edge of the image at about 4 o’clock, a small region in one of the galaxy's spiral arms is outlined with a white box. Four pullouts of that region are located at right in a column.

  3. NASA’s Hubble Identifies One of Darkest Known Galaxies

    February 18, 2026Release ID: 2026-007 Missions: Hubble

    The elusive object dubbed CDG-2 may be composed of 99% dark matter.

    Two images side by side. At left, a field of space with a dozen white foreground stars and small, yellow background galaxies. An area at center is outlined with a dashed red circle surrounded by a white box. Lines extend from the box to a pullout at right containing faint, grainy white light surrounded by a red circle labeled “Candidate dark galaxy – diffuse emission.” Four white dots are circled in blue and labeled globular clusters.

  4. NASA's Hubble Captures Light Show Around Rapidly Dying Star

    February 10, 2026Release ID: 2026-008 Missions: Hubble

    Interplay of shadow, light, and dust hints at processes shaping enigmatic nebula

    In the image center, an opaque oval cloud of gray gas aligned from 1 o’clock to 7 o’clock hides a star. Two strong beams of light from the star emerge from large holes in both sides of the cloud, forming narrow cones extending toward 10 o’clock and 4 o’clock. The central cloud is surrounded by concentric, wispy shells of gas illuminated by the star’s light. The shells reflect extra light where they’re hit by the twin beams. A crowd of smaller stars with cross-shaped spikes over them surrounds the nebula on a black background.

  5. NASA Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang

    January 28, 2026Release ID: 2026-107 Missions: Webb

    In addition to setting a new distance record, galaxy MoM-z14 joins an emerging population of galaxies that are unexpectedly bright, compact, and chemically enriched.

    A wide field of view showing deep space, dotted with many small galaxies and a few foreground stars that display six diffraction spikes. One galaxy is highlighted with a magnified image in a graphic pull-out box in the lower right corner. The galaxy is labeled MoM-z14 and appears as a blurry yellow blob with a small red area at its top.

  6. AI Unlocks Hundreds of Cosmic Anomalies in Hubble Archive

    January 27, 2026Release ID: 2026-005 Missions: Hubble

    New findings include galaxy mergers and "jellyfish" galaxies.

    Six Hubble images of distorted galaxies are organized in a two-row mosaic.

  7. NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals

    January 21, 2026Release ID: 2026-104 Missions: Webb

    Before-and-after snapshots show for the first time that crystalline silicates form in the scalding-hot inner portion of a disk around an actively forming star — and could end up in comets at the edge of its system.

    A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. At center-left, a larger star is circled. It has prominent diffraction spikes and an arc of white at right.

  8. Intricacies of Helix Nebula Revealed With NASA's Webb

    January 20, 2026Release ID: 2026-103 Missions: Webb

    New image offers most detailed infrared view of iconic nebula to date

    A closeup of a small section of the Helix Nebula, an expanding shell of gas and dust. Thousands of orange and gold comet-like pillars stream upward from the bottom, like thin liquid blown up a sheet of glass. These pillars are around the circumference of the arced shell, which forms a partial orange semi-circle at the bottom. The pillars are more numerous and denser at the bottom, and darker red. They fade to orange and then yellow in the arc. In the top two-thirds, they are thinner and more golden, and it’s easier to see the black background of space. Several bright blue stars, some with diffraction spikes, are scattered throughout. A few larger stars are on the right side.

  9. NASA’s Webb Delivers Unprecedented Look Into Heart of Circinus Galaxy

    January 13, 2026Release ID: 2026-105 Missions: Webb

    A specialized technique may change what scientists thought about how much material black holes eject.

    An artist’s illustration showing the center of the Circinus galaxy, including its supermassive black hole, dusty torus, and superheated jets of matter. The center of supermassive black hole, slightly left of center, is bright white. Two slim, bright green jets of matter shoot out from the black hole at 1 o’clock and 7 o’clock, and hit the edges of the frame. A donut-shaped, orangish-pinkish ring of dust and gas, called a torus, surrounds the black hole. The disk is clumpy closer to the center and more diffuse at the edges. The torus, tilted at the same angle as the jets, is brighter and whiter closer to the black hole than at the edges. The words Artist’s Concept is in the lower right corner.

  10. 2026 Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize Awarded to STScI Astronomer Kailash Sahu

    January 08, 2026Release ID: 2026-402 Missions: STScI

    The award recognizes an outstanding research contribution to astronomy or astrophysics.

    A man with salt-and-pepper hair and a mustache, wearing a button-up shirt, standing in front of a photo of a nebula speckled with stars.

  11. Scientists Identify 'Astronomy’s Platypus' with NASA’s Webb Telescope

    January 06, 2026Release ID: 2026-101 Missions: Webb

    A small sample of galaxies discovered in Webb’s archive exhibit a previously unseen combination of features that hint at a possible new population of galaxies.

    James Webb Space Telescope image showing a broad area of space with many small galaxies, four of which are highlighted in pull-out boxes. The four highlighted galaxies are very small, appearing as points of light. Black areas of the overall image indicate where the telescope did not collect data – a vertical section in the center and a square in the lower left corner.

  12. NASA Webb Finds Early-Universe Analog's Unexpected Talent for Making Dust

    January 06, 2026Release ID: 2026-102 Missions: Webb

    Planet-building material found even in environments lacking the needed ingredients

    A region of space is filled with stars and clumps of glowing orange and tan dust. A small portion of the sky at the center of the image is outlined with a white box. Lines extend from the corner of the box to the inset panel at the top right showing a magnified version of the outlined portion of the image. In the inset, there are smatterings of dim whitish-blueish stars and about seven glowing red orbs across the center in a line. Also across the center of the inset is a green glow. The background of the image is filled with stars and galaxies of various shapes and colors.

  13. NASA Hubble Helps Detect 'Wake' of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star

    January 05, 2026Release ID: 2026-002 Missions: Hubble

    After nearly a decade of tracking the giant star’s hidden companion, scientists have confirmed its existence and the influence it exerts.

    An illustration of the red supergiant star Betelgeuse, its companion star, and a dusty wake. The disk of a red-orange star is in the center. It is surrounded by a diffuse orange cloud representing its extended atmosphere. Below it about one stellar diameter away is a yellow dot representing a smaller companion star. From the companion, a dark red cloud wraps around in a counterclockwise direction. It begins very narrow and expands as it gets further from the companion, finally disappearing at the outer edge of the diffuse orange cloud around 10 o’clock. The words “artist’s concept” are at lower right.

  14. NASA's Hubble Examines Cloud-9, First of New Type of Object

    January 05, 2026Release ID: 2026-001 Missions: Hubble

    Failed galaxy offers window into ‘dark universe’

    A region of space mostly filled with background galaxies, with one prominent star at upper left. A large blob of purple haze occupies much of the field. Within the purple region, an unremarkable area is outlined with a dashed white circle.

  15. NASA's Hubble Reveals Largest Found Chaotic Birthplace of Planets

    December 23, 2025Release ID: 2025-025 Missions: Hubble

    Vast dust and gas disk offers insight into the birth of star systems.

    Near the center is an object that resembles an edge-on view of a hamburger. There is a diagonal dark strip (the meat patty) of dust, running from 1 o'clock to 7 o'clock, that obscures a central star. Curving away from either side of the dark strip are glowing white clouds (the buns) where dust is reflecting starlight. Bright blue finger-like wisps of material extend far above and below the dark center plane. A few dozen stars, some with four diffraction spikes, are scattered on the black background of space.

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