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  1. NASA's Roman Space Telescope Could Help Researchers Detect the Universe’s First Stars

    May 09, 2024Release ID: 2024-204 Missions: STScI, Roman

    Tidal disruption events offer an opportunity to locate the elusive stars.

    An illustration of a star being torn apart by a black hole.

  2. Webb Locates Dust Reservoirs in Two Supernovae

    July 05, 2023Release ID: 2023-115 Missions: Webb

    The finding suggests supernovae are likely suppliers of dust to early, young galaxies.

    A 4-part image is split down the middle with a vertical white line, at the top right of each half of the image is a white box extending out from lines connected to smaller white boxes in each image. On the left side, the large white box connected to the smaller white box is labeled SN 2004et. In this larger box is a zoomed-in image of a dot on the larger background image, and the zoomed-in image appears as a splotchy, red and white circle. On the right side, the large white box is labeled SN 2017eaw, and the zoomed-in image is a small light blue dot. The background images on each side are mostly black sections of a galaxy, with various smatterings of white dust clumps, small red dots, and light blue dots.

  3. Visualization Explores a Massive Star's Great Eruption

    January 25, 2022Release ID: 2022-004 Missions: Hubble

    The Violent Star Eta Carinae Model Is Based On Multiwavelength Observations

    Multiwavelength visualization of gas and dust surrounding the star Eta Carinae

  4. Webb to Study How Massive Stars' Blasts of Radiation Influence Their Environments

    May 19, 2021Release ID: 2021-024 Missions: Webb

    The nearby Orion Bar is a typical example of a region influenced by young, massive stars

    Telescope image showing a cloudy mass of various colors and brightness, a number of bright white foreground stars, and many red star-like objects in the background.

  5. Hubble Captures Giant Star on the Edge of Destruction

    April 23, 2021Release ID: 2021-017 Missions: Hubble

    Petulant Star Ejects Spectacular Bubble of Glowing Gases

    Bright star surrounded by kaleidoscopic rings of red and blue.

  6. The Cosmic Dust in Your Bones

    November 18, 2020Release ID: 2020-57 Missions: Webb

    NASA’s Webb Telescope Will Investigate the Intertwined Origins of Dust and Life

    Apep triple star system

  7. NASA's Webb Telescope Will Study an Iconic Supernova

    February 28, 2019Release ID: 2019-13 Missions: Webb

    Webb Will Probe the Dusty Remains of Supernova 1987A

    Colorful ring of purple with bright green and blue-green dots surrounding a bright orange blob.

  8. Astronomers Uncover New Clues to the Star that Wouldn't Die

    August 02, 2018Release ID: 2018-33 Missions: Hubble

    Brawl Among Three Rowdy Stellar Siblings May Have Triggered Eruption

    Astronomers Uncover New Clues to the Star that Wouldn't Die

  9. Hubble Sees a Star 'Inflating' a Giant Bubble

    April 21, 2016Release ID: 2016-13 Missions: Hubble

    Twenty-six candles grace NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's birthday cake this year, and now one giant space "balloon" will add to the festivities. Just in time for the 26th anniversary of Hubble's launch on April 24,...

    Emission nebula NGC 7635, the Bubble Nebula

  10. Hubble Unveils a Tapestry of Dazzling Diamond-Like Stars

    January 21, 2016Release ID: 2016-03 Missions: Hubble

    Some of the Milky Way's "celebrity stars" — opulent, attention-getting, and short-lived — can be found in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the glittering star cluster called Trumpler 14. It is located 8,000 light-yea...

    Close-up of a star cluster.

  11. NASA's Spitzer, Hubble Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies

    January 06, 2016Release ID: 2016-01 Missions: Hubble

    Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system located within 10,000 light-years of Earth, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled an amount of material at least 10...

    Ten grayscale images of stars—in a grid layout of two rows of five images—similar to Eta Carinae in nearby galaxies.

  12. Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed 'Nasty'

    May 21, 2015Release ID: 2015-21 Missions: Hubble

    Astronomers have spent decades trying to determine the oddball behavior of an aging star nicknamed "Nasty 1" residing in our Milky Way galaxy. Nasty 1 was identified as a Wolf-Rayet star, a rapidly evolving star that...

    Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed 'Nasty'

  13. ESO Telescopes Find Most Stellar Heavyweights Don't Live Alone

    July 26, 2012Release ID: 2012-33 Missions: STScI

    A new study using European Southern Observatory (ESO) telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope, has shown that most very bright high-mass stars, which drive the evolution of galaxies, do not live alone. Almost...

    Illustration of a pair of hot and bright O stars transferring mass from one star to another

  14. Astronomers Watch Delayed Broadcast of a Powerful Stellar Eruption

    February 15, 2012Release ID: 2012-12 Missions: Hubble

    Astronomers are watching a delayed broadcast of a spectacular outburst from the unstable, behemoth double-star system Eta Carinae, an event initially seen on Earth nearly 170 years ago. Dubbed the "Great Eruption," the...

    Astronomers Watch Delayed Broadcast of a Powerful Stellar Eruption

  15. Fastest Rotating Star Found in Neighboring Galaxy

    December 05, 2011Release ID: 2011-39 Missions: Hubble

    An international team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope have found the fastest spinning star ever discovered. VFTS 102 rotates at a dizzying 1 million miles per hour and...

    Fastest Rotating Star Found in Neighboring Galaxy

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