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  1. NASA's Hubble Dazzles With Young Stars in Trifid Nebula

    April 20, 2026Release ID: 2026-013 Missions: Hubble

    Actively forming stars are threaded throughout thick dust in this star-forming region.

    A tightly cropped Hubble view of a vast star-forming region known as the Trifid Nebula. The top left is bright blue. Brown and amber colors run from top right through the center in irregular, overlapping lines to the bottom-center. At bottom right, the view is almost black. Tiny, amber-colored stars appear throughout.

  2. NASA’s Hubble Revisits Crab Nebula to Track 25 Years of Expansion

    March 23, 2026Release ID: 2026-009 Missions: Hubble

    Movement in the Crab Nebula is clearly detectable between Hubble images

    Colorful nebula in space with a white haze throughout that is more concentrated in the center with a rippling effect. Colorful gas filaments appear to splash outward from the nebula center, colored yellow, magenta, and blue. A black border with right angles at the corners of the images show where the telescope’s field of view stops.

  3. 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.

  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. Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit

    November 19, 2025Release ID: 2025-132 Missions: Webb

    Researchers used Webb to refine the orbit of two Wolf-Rayet stars, named for the Egyptian god of chaos, to a lengthy 190 years and confirmed a third star carves their ongoing carbon dust ejections.

    Four dust shells in Wolf-Rayet Apep expand away from three central stars that appear as a single pinpoint of light. The shells are curved, and the interior shell looks like a backward lowercase e shape.

  6. NASA's Webb Scratches Beyond Surface of Cat's Paw for 3rd Anniversary

    July 10, 2025Release ID: 2025-129 Missions: Webb

    What lies within a toe bean? According to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, mini toe beans composed of gas, dust, and stars.

    A section of the Cat’s Paw Nebula, a local star-forming region composed of gas, dust, and young stars. Four roughly circular areas are toward the center of the frame: a small oval toward the top left, a large circle in the top center, and two ovals at bottom left and right. Each circular area has a luminous blue glow, with the top center and bottom left areas the brightest. Brown-orange filaments of dust, which vary in density, surround these four bluish patches and stretch toward the frame’s edges. Small zones, such as to the left and right of the top-center blue circular area, appear darker and seemingly vacant of stars. Toward the center are small, fiery red clumps scattered among the brown dust. Many small, yellow-white stars are spread across the scene, some with eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of Webb. A few larger blue-white stars with diffraction spikes are scattered throughout, mostly toward the top left and bottom right. In the top right corner is a bright red-orange oval.

  7. New Visualization From NASA's Webb Telescope Explores Cosmic Cliffs

    May 07, 2025Release ID: 2025-123 Missions: Webb

    Iconic Webb image transforms into a 3D landscape of gas, dust, and stars.

    The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line forming peaks and valleys in the top third. At the bottom is a brown cloudscape forming a nebula. At the top is a comparatively clear upper portion in blue. Speckled across both portions are innumerable stars of many sizes.

  8. Eye on Infinity: NASA Celebrates Hubble's 35th Year in Orbit

    April 23, 2025Release ID: 2025-013 Missions: Hubble

    Legendary space telescope redefined the universe.

    Composite shows four Hubble images in quarters. At top left is a crisp view of Mars in shades of orange, blues, and browns. At top right is planetary nebula NGC 2899, which is shaped like a single macaroni noodle, with its central torus appearing semi-transparent and blue and green, and its top and bottom edges in orange. At bottom left is a tiny portion of the Rosette Nebula. Very dark gray material shaped like a triangle takes up the center. At bottom right is barred spiral galaxy NGC 5335 with a milky yellow center that forms a bar surrounded by multiple blue star-filled spiral arms that wrap up counterclockwise.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. NASA's Webb Reveals Intricate Layers of Interstellar Dust, Gas

    January 14, 2025Release ID: 2025-102 Missions: Webb

    A supernova flashbulb illuminated otherwise unseen material between the stars.

    Three rows show Webb images of the same region taken on three different dates. The top row is labeled August 19, 2024. The middle row is labeled September 16, 2024. The bottom row is labeled September 30, 2024. Each row shows two images split by a vertical black bar where there is no data. Each image is speckled with dozens of white stars, some showing Webb’s signature 8-point diffraction spikes, against the black background of space. The images also show tightly packed, glowing red filaments that resemble muscle fibers or wood grain. While the background stars are the same in every row, the filaments change noticeably. In the top row, the filaments extend horizontally from upper left to lower right. In the middle and bottom rows, the filaments extend from lower left to upper right, and seem to shift slightly downward in position, with the last the lowest.

  12. Webb Watches Carbon-Rich Dust Shells Form, Expand in Star System

    January 13, 2025Release ID: 2025-103 Missions: Webb

    The telescope shows that the winds of two massive stars are producing carbon-rich dust, which may eventually “seed” new stars and planets.

    A three-part graphic showing observations of Wolf-Rayet 140, two massive stars with 17 dust shells around them. An inset appears at right, showing a portion of the two observations matched up to show that the arced dust has moved.

  13. NASA's Hubble Sees a Stellar Volcano

    October 16, 2024Release ID: 2024-021 Missions: Hubble

    Oddball Stellar Duo Creates Spectacular Fireworks

    A bright binary star surrounded by a colorful nebula on the black background of space. The star in the center is a large white spot surrounded by a circular glow. It has a large, X-shaped set of diffraction spikes around it. The nebula extends far above, below, left and right of the star in long, arcing shapes made of thin, multicolored filaments — mostly red and greenish colors, but lit in a bright cyan near the star where its light illuminates the gas.

  14. Pillars of Creation Star in New Visualization from NASA's Hubble and Webb Telescopes

    June 26, 2024Release ID: 2024-020 Missions: Hubble, Webb

    The new visualization enables viewers to explore fundamental questions in science, experience how science is done, and discover the universe for themselves.

    Mosaic of the Pillars of Creation visualization model, composed of 4 alternating strips of Hubble and Webb versions oriented 45 degrees clockwise from vertical.

  15. First-of-Its-Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image

    June 20, 2024Release ID: 2024-115 Missions: Webb

    Alignment of bipolar jets confirms star formation theories

    A rectangular image with black vertical rectangles at the bottle left and top right to indicate missing data. A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. The upper left corner of the image is filled with mostly orange dust, and within that orange dust, there are several small red plumes of gas that extend from the top left to the bottom right, at the same angle. The center of the image is filled with mostly blue gas. At the center, there is one particularly bright star, that has an hourglass shadow above and below it. To the right of that is what looks a vertical eye-shaped crevice with a bright star at the center. The gas to the right of the crevice is a darker orange. Small points of light are sprinkled across the field, brightest sources in the field have extensive eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of the Webb Telescope.

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