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  1. NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Spot Distant Black Holes That Shred Stars

    July 14, 2026Release ID: 2026-203 Missions: Roman

    Roman’s large tally will help illuminate the origins of supermassive black holes.

    An illustration. At upper right is an outline of a bright orange circle, with a mostly black interior. The interior represents a black hole. Bright orange lines swirl several times around the circle, with one narrow orange band crossing in front, representing light that is gravitationally lensed by the black hole. To the right, set off by an orange and red haze, are irregular streaks of orange gas that fan out, arcing toward the viewer and all the way to the left. The line becomes more continuous toward the left, ending in what looks like a bright orange teardrop. This teardrop represents a star being shredded as it approached a black hole. Text at the lower right reads, artist’s concept.

  2. NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes

    July 13, 2026Release ID: 2026-017 Missions: Hubble

    Call it the case of the missing black holes.

    A Hubble image of globular star cluster Omega Centauri, which looks like a dense field of stars. Some stars appear a bit larger and brighter than others; most appear blue, orange, or yellow. The colors appear uniformly distributed, like grains of sand. Stars toward the cluster’s center are packed closer together, creating a more luminous area at the globular cluster’s core. A small red square frame is superimposed on the cluster near the image’s center. It connects to a square pullout in the top-right corner, which shows the outlined area in greater detail. Among the blue- and orange-colored stars is small blue-white dot highlighted by a small red circle.

  3. NASA’s Webb Reveals Stars Sparking to Life in Cosmic Celebration

    July 02, 2026Release ID: 2026-124 Missions: Webb

    Outflows reveal characteristics about the region’s protostars and how they influence their environment.

    FS Tau, a star-forming nebula. Clouds of transparent blue and purple gas and dust stretch from the center to the right. Several yellow and white protostars, some showing Webb’s eight-pronged diffraction pattern, are dispersed throughout the clouds. Orange wisps and filaments of gas extend from one of the protostars at the center toward the top left and bottom right corners. There are numerous, distant yellow and white galaxies strewn about the black background of space.

  4. NASA Webb, Hubble Reveal History of Relic of Milky Way’s Formation

    June 16, 2026Release ID: 2026-123 Missions: Webb, Hubble

    New research shows that Terzan 5 contains four separate generations of stars, confirming it as the prototype of a “bulge fossil fragment.”

    A dramatically crowded starfield that looks like a just-shaken snow globe. The black background of space, which is clearer at the edges, is covered by thousands of tiny white, orange, and blue points of light, which are stars. The stars are most concentrated in the center, forming a roughly circular orb, and sparser at the edges of the image. Several larger orange stars, particularly those largest near the edges of the frame, have prominent diffraction spikes.

  5. STScI Scientists Surprised to Find Brightness ‘Gap’ in Ancient Star Cluster

    June 03, 2026Release ID: 2026-405 Missions: STScI

    Tools developed at STScI for the Hubble Space Telescope were critical to this discovery.

    This astronomical image is speckled with thousands of stars against the black background of space. Most stars are visible only as white pinpoints. The great majority of stars are crowding the image’s center, which appears as an irregular round shape. Most stars in the center of this cluster are whiter, and those along periphery edges yellower. The stars across the entire image range in color from blue to white to yellowish red. A few of the stars appear a bit larger and brighter than the rest, with six diffraction spikes.

  6. Hubble Survey Sets Up Roman’s Future Look Near Milky Way’s Center

    May 11, 2026Release ID: 2026-201 Missions: Roman, Hubble

    This large-scale program provides a springboard to help interpret future Roman data.

    An observation (labeled “VISTA V V V Survey, Near-infrared) of the Milky Way’s center pointing toward its supermassive black hole, which is labeled Sagittarius A* (pronounced “A star”). At 7 o’clock from center is a small region, outlined with 5 fields of view from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope that are stacked together in a horizontal rectangle. This region is about a third of the image in length and a fifth of the image in width. Within that same region are diagonal lines that alternate between orange and blue. A legend at the bottom left shows two Hubble instruments. One of them, marked with an orange diamond, is labeled “W F C 3 / U V I S.” The other, marked with a blue diamond, is labeled “A C S / W F C.” The background is a field of stars, gas, and dust that appear grey, except the center third that runs from the left to the right of the frame, which is composed of brown filaments of dust and gas. The tiny region surrounding Sagittarius A star appears orange.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. NASA's Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time

    December 18, 2025Release ID: 2025-008 Missions: Hubble

    The spectacular, resulting dust cloud mimics the appearance of a planet.

    Image labeled Fomalhaut system, Hubble Space Telescope. A grainy orange oval ring tilts slightly from upper right to lower left. At two o'clock, a white box outlines the ring's edge and white lines extend to a larger pullout at lower right. Two spots are labeled cs1 2013 and cs2 2023. Inside the ring is a black circle with a white star symbol in the middle.

  11. NASA's Roman Could Bring New Waves of Information on Galaxy’s Stars

    November 20, 2025Release ID: 2025-204 Missions: Roman

    It’s clear as a bell: Roman can enlighten us on the stars located in the Milky Way’s galactic bulge.

    Mosaic titled “Red Giant Echoes with Roman,” which shows 11 artist’s concepts of stars, including the Sun and 10 red giants of various radii against a black background. The illustrations are organized roughly into three rows with the grid size of the largest red giant star, located in the bottom right, the equivalent of two rows. Each star is depicted as a bright and blotchy orb. Starting with the mosaic’s smallest star, the Sun, in the top left corner and shifting to the right before moving to the next row, the illustrations become gradually larger and change from shades of light orange to red-orange. Each star’s radius is placed at the bottom of its grid. From left to right, the four light orange stars in the top row are listed with the following radii: Sun, Radius 1.0; Radius 6.3; Radius 7.0, and Radius 7.8. The second row has three orange stars and reads: Radius 8.8; Radius 9.7; and Radius 10.7. The third has four red-orange stars and reads: Radius 11.8; Radius 15.0; Radius 20.1; and Radius 33.7.

  12. 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.

  13. Aging White Dwarf Still Consuming Its Planetary System

    October 22, 2025Release ID: 2025-404 Missions: STScI

    Dead star seen ripping planet apart.

    At image center is a small, white star against a gray background. It is surrounded by a large translucent disk with rings and gaps that extends from upper left to lower right. In the foreground, irregular chunky rocks are floating in space along the bottom of the frame. A stream of material extends from lower right toward the central star. The words, artist's concept are at lower left.

  14. NASA's Webb Explores Largest Star-Forming Cloud in Milky Way

    September 24, 2025Release ID: 2025-141 Missions: Webb

    The galactic center is packed with star-making material — why isn’t it producing more stars? Webb could reveal long-sought answers.

    A wide view of a region of space filled with stars and clumps of orange clouds.

  15. NASA’s Webb Observes Immense Stellar Jet on Outskirts of Our Milky Way

    September 10, 2025Release ID: 2025-131 Missions: Webb

    Young Star Behaves Like a Giant Roman Candle

    Gaseous yellow-orange filaments look like a rose seen from the side and tilted slightly from upper left to lower right, slightly higher than the center of the frame. Extending from the rose to upper left and lower right are gaseous outflows that appear as red lobes that have an overall shape of tall, narrow triangles with rounded tips. Each red triangle is made up of wavy, irregular lines. Dozens of stars are scattered across the field. One particularly bright white star with eight diffraction spikes is located at the top of the yellow rose. Another bright blue star with even more prominent diffraction spikes is to its lower left. The background of space is black.

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