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  1. NASA's Roman Poised to Transform Hunt for Elusive Neutron Stars

    May 06, 2026Release ID: 2026-202 Missions: Roman

    Tiny shifts in starlight could reveal otherwise hidden objects

    Illustration showing a small circular white object on the black background of space speckled with dim stars. The object is glowing, and rays of soft light emanate in all directions. The words “Artist’s Concept” are at the lower right.

  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 Observes Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation

    December 16, 2025Release ID: 2025-134 Missions: Webb

    Bizarre, lemon-shaped world has an atmosphere unlike any ever seen before.

    Illustration labeled “artist’s concept” at right bottom corner. At left bottom corner, a partially illuminated, lemon-shaped exoplanet appears against a black background. This planet is most brightly illuminated at its elongated tip on its right side. On the left side, which is wider, the planet trails off into the darkness of the background. The planet is colored in varying, mottled shades of red, light pink, and fuchsia. Most of the pink occurs closest to the tip, while most of the fuchsia is at the top and bottom edges. At right top corner, a white beam emanates diagonally, oriented from 10 o’clock to 4 o’clock, from either side of a small, glowing, white star.

  4. 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.

  5. Investigating the Origins of the Crab Nebula With NASA's Webb

    June 17, 2024Release ID: 2024-120 Missions: Webb

    New data revises our view of this unusual supernova explosion.

    The Crab Nebula. A multicolored oval with complex structure extends from lower left to upper right against a black background.

  6. Webb Finds Evidence for Neutron Star at Heart of Young Supernova Remnant

    February 22, 2024Release ID: 2024-112 Missions: Webb

    Astronomers detect long-sought compact object within the remnant of Supernova 1987A.

    A three-panel image. At left, a mottled light pink oval with a light blue, keyhole-shaped blob in the middle, surrounded by a few stars. At right, two stacked panels show a bright orange ring with an orange dot in the middle.

  7. The Crab Nebula Seen in New Light by NASA's Webb

    October 30, 2023Release ID: 2023-137 Missions: Webb

    Exquisite, never-before-seen details help unravel the supernova remnant’s puzzling history.

    An oval nebula with complex structure against a black background.

  8. NASA's Webb Makes First Detection of Heavy Element from Star Merger

    October 25, 2023Release ID: 2023-134 Missions: Webb

    Webb’s study of the second-brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen reveals tellurium.

    Bright galaxies and other light sources in various sizes, shapes, and colors are scattered across a black swath of space. Toward the center right is a blue-white spiral galaxy seen face-on that is larger than the other light sources in the image. The galaxy is labeled “former home galaxy.” Toward the upper left is a small red point, which has a white circle around it and is labeled “GRB 230307A kilonova.”

  9. NASA's Hubble Finds Bizarre Explosion in Unexpected Place

    October 05, 2023Release ID: 2023-024 Missions: Hubble

    Extraordinarily Bright Bursts of Light Found Between Galaxies

    Illustration of one of brightest explosions ever seen in space. Called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT), it shines intensely in blue light. It appears as a bright white blob left of center where blue-white and red rays sprout out from it. Toward the right of the image there is a spiral galaxy. To the upper left is another whitish galaxy shaped like a cigar. The LFBOT doesn’t seem to be associated with either galaxy.

  10. How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Scan for Showstopping Explosions

    November 03, 2022Release ID: 2022-049 Missions: Roman

    Roman is set to help researchers detect more kilonovae, helping us learn significantly more about these “all-star” smashups.

    Two bright blue circular shapes that appear to be joined are left of center. They are illustrations of neutron stars merging. Debris, which is also white and bright blue, emanates in misshapen patterns primarily from where they are joining at the center.

  11. Hubble Spots Ultra-Speedy Jet Blasting from Star Crash

    October 12, 2022Release ID: 2022-029 Missions: Hubble

    Titanic Stellar Collision Rattles Space and Time

    Illustration showing two neutron stars colliding with each other, producing a bright jet and gravitational waves.

  12. NASA's Hubble Sees Unexplained Brightness from Colossal Explosion

    November 12, 2020Release ID: 2020-48 Missions: Hubble

    Neutron-Star Collision Releases Puzzling Burst of Infrared Light

    NASA's Hubble Sees Unexplained Brightness from Colossal Explosion

  13. NASA's Great Observatories Help Astronomers Build a 3D Visualization of Exploded Star

    January 05, 2020Release ID: 2020-03 Missions: Hubble

    Movie Dissects the Nebula's Intricate Nested Structure

    NASA's Great Observatories Help Astronomers Build a 3D Visualization of Exploded Star

  14. Hubble Uncovers Never Before Seen Features Around a Neutron Star

    September 17, 2018Release ID: 2018-43 Missions: Hubble

    A disk of inflating supernova debris may be encircling a stellar corpse

    Hubble Uncovers Never Before Seen Features Around a Neutron Star

  15. NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event

    October 16, 2017Release ID: 2017-41 Missions: Hubble

    Neutron star collision cooks up exotic elements, gravitational waves

    NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event

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