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  1. NASA Webb's Autopsy of Planet Swallowed by Star Yields Surprise

    April 10, 2025Release ID: 2025-117 Missions: Webb

    Lingering brightness provides evidence for how planet met its demise.

    An illustration of a star after it has swallowed its own planet. The star look like an orange globe with flares coming out of various sides. A dark orange horizontal ring of material circles the host star. There is a very transparent cloud of blue dust spread out from the star.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. NASA's Hubble Tracks Down a 'Blue Lurker' Among Stars

    January 13, 2025Release ID: 2025-002 Missions: Hubble

    A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star

    Illustration titled “Evolution of ‘Blue Lurker’ Star System.” It features six boxes, in two rows of three. The top left shows a large circular path of a star surrounding a small circular path of two rotating stars. The top middle box shows two stars rotating around each other, shown with blue streaks, and a third star is in the distance. The top right box shows a large fiery orange star with a feeding line to another distant star. The bottom left box shows a small yellow star on a black background surrounded by a faint red ring of gas. The bottom middle box shows the yellow star with a white box around it. Lines lead from this small box to the bottom right panel, showing a large fiery yellow star. The words “Artist’s Concept” is at the bottom right.

  5. NASA's Webb Finds Planet-Forming Disks Lived Longer in Early Universe

    December 16, 2024Release ID: 2024-135 Missions: Webb, Hubble

    New data confirms Hubble finding and refutes current theories of planet formation in universe’s early days.

    The center of the image contains arcs of orange and pink that form a boat-like shape. One end of these arcs points to the top right of the image, while the other end point toward the bottom left. Another plume of orange and pink expands from the center to the top left of the image. To the right of this plume is a large cluster of white stars. There are various other white stars and a few galaxies of different sizes spread throughout the image. Ten, small, yellow circles overlaid at various points across the image indicate the positions of the ten stars surveyed in this study.

  6. NASA's Hubble Finds Sizzling Details About Young Star FU Orionis

    November 21, 2024Release ID: 2024-037 Missions: Hubble, STScI

    Ultraviolet light reveals new information about the eruptive star's mechanisms.

    Artist's concept of the early stages of the young star FU Orionis outburst. The star, a bright yellow sphere near the center, and its fluffy disk of gas and dust are slightly tilted, extending from the top left corner to the bottom right. The swirling disk is bright yellow close to the star and gradually transitions to dark orange moving toward the edges of the frame. The top left and right corners reveal a black, starless background.

  7. NASA's Hubble, Webb Probe Surprisingly Smooth Disk Around Vega

    November 01, 2024Release ID: 2024-030 Missions: Hubble, Webb, STScI

    Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction

    A two-panel image split down the middle vertically. At the left is the Vega disk as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The disk is perfectly circular, and at the center is a black spot blocking out the bright glow of a star. Closer to the center, the disk is white. Radial striations extend out from the center, giving a ripple effect to the disk like the end of a sausage casing. The outer edge of the circular disk is blue. At the right, the Webb image of the disk is an orange colored, smooth, fuzzy halo. The inner disk is whiter toward the center, and there is darker lane between the inner disk and the more orange outer disk. The disk is also perfectly circular, with a black circle in the center due to lack of data from saturation.

  8. 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.

  9. NASA's Hubble Finds that a Black Hole Beam Promotes Stellar Eruptions

    September 26, 2024Release ID: 2024-008 Missions: Hubble

    Nova Explosions in Double Star Systems Doubled Near Black Hole Jet

    An artist's concept looks down into the core of the galaxy M87, which is just left of center and appears as a large blue dot. A bright blue-white, narrow and linear jet of plasma transects the illustration from center left to upper right. It begins at the source of the jet, the galaxy's black hole, which is surrounded by a blue spiral of material. At lower right is a red giant star that is far from the black hole and close to the viewer. A bridge of glowing gas links the star to a smaller white dwarf star companion immediately to its left. Engorged with infalling hydrogen from the red giant star, the smaller star exploded in a blue-white flash, which looks like numerous diffraction spikes emitted in all directions. Thousands of stars are in the background.

  10. NASA's Webb Peers into the Extreme Outer Galaxy

    September 12, 2024Release ID: 2024-131 Missions: Webb

    Among the Milky Way’s outskirts is a firecracker show of star formation.

    At center right is a compact star cluster composed of luminous red, blue, and white points of light. Faint jets with clumpy, diffuse material extend in various directions from the bright cluster. Above and to the right is a smaller cluster of stars. Translucent red wisps of material stretch across the scene. Background galaxies are scattered across this swath of space, appearing as small blue-white and orange-white dots or fuzzy, thin disks.

  11. NASA's Hubble Traces Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxy Using Stellar Motions

    July 11, 2024Release ID: 2024-017 Missions: Hubble

    The telescope's longevity is an asset in gaining clarity about the universe's invisible glue.

    At left is the Digitized Sky Survey view of the Draco dwarf galaxy. Many yellow, blue-white, and white stars are dispersed across the black background of space. They vary in shape and size, though most resemble small, circular points of light. Larger stars, some with four diffraction spikes, are scattered infrequently across the field of view. A thin, light brown oval highlights the area of interest, which contains two small white squares in its center. The area of each square is magnified at right, showing views captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. The top right square reveals a black patch of space with many small points of light and a large, four-point diffraction spike toward the left. The bottom right square shows a black patch of space filled with small points of light, some with diffraction spikes.

  12. NASA's Hubble Finds Strong Evidence for Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in Omega Centauri

    July 10, 2024Release ID: 2024-015 Missions: Hubble

    Elusive Black Hole Tucked Away in Heart of Star Cluster

    An image of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, a collection of myriad stars colored red, white, and blue on the black background of space.

  13. NASA Releases Hubble Image Taken in New Pointing Mode

    June 18, 2024Release ID: 2024-026 Missions: Hubble

    The image represents one of the first observations taken with Hubble since transitioning to the new pointing mode, enabling more consistent science operations.

    At center is a new Hubble telescope image of the nearby galaxy NGC 1546. The galaxy's orientation gives us a good view of dust lanes from slightly above and backlit by the galaxy's core. This dust absorbs light from the core, reddening it and making the dust appear rusty-brown. The core itself glows brightly in a yellowish light indicating an older population of stars. Brilliant blue regions of active star formation sparkle through the dust. Several background galaxies are also visible, including an edge-on spiral just to the left of NGC 1546.

  14. Webb Finds Plethora of Carbon Molecules Around Young Star

    June 06, 2024Release ID: 2024-121 Missions: Webb

    Result provides new insights into the ingredients for planet formation around very low-mass stars.

    A yellow star is at the center, surrounded by a mottled disk of gas and dust that transitions from bright yellow to darker orange moving outward. There is a gap between the inner disk and the star, with two curving streams of gas connecting the star and the disk. The wide disk stretches from about 8 o’clock to 2 o’clock and is tilted so that the nearer side is toward the viewer. A label at lower left says “artist’s concept.”

  15. 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.

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