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  1. NASA's Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornado 

    March 24, 2025Release ID: 2025-112 Missions: Webb, STScI

    Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy.

    Angled from the upper left corner to the lower right corner is a cone-shaped orange-red cloud known as Herbig-Haro 49/50. This feature takes up about three-fourths of the length of this angle. The upper left end of this feature has a translucent, rounded end. The conical feature widens slightly from the rounded end at the upper right down to the lower right. Along the cone there are additional rounded edges, like edges of a wave, and intricate foamy-like details, as well as a clearer view of the black background of space. In the upper left, overlapping with the rounded end of Herbig-Haro 49/50, is a background spiral galaxy with a concentrated blue center that fades outward to blend with red spiral arms. The background of space is speckled with some white stars and smaller, more numerous, fainter white galaxies throughout.

  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. NASA's Webb Snaps Supersonic Outflow of Young Star

    September 14, 2023Release ID: 2023-141 Missions: Webb

    Infrared capabilities map out molecular structure of outflow

    At the center is a thin horizontal pinkish cloud known as Herbig-Haro 211 that is uneven with rounded ends, and tilted from bottom left to top right. It takes up about two-thirds of the length of this angle, but is thinner and longer at the opposite angle. At its center is a dark spot. On either side of the dark spot, there are orangish-yellow wisps that extend to light blue wisps. Within the center of those clouds, a pink fluffy streak runs through each lobe. At the ends of each lobe, pink becomes the dominant color. The lobe to the left is fatter. The right lobe is thinner, and ends in a smaller pink semi-circle. Just off the edge of this lobe is a slightly smaller pink semicircle, then a pink sponge-like blob. The background contains several bright stars, each with eight diffraction spikes extending out from the central bright point.

  4. Webb Snaps Highly Detailed Infrared Image of Actively Forming Stars

    July 26, 2023Release ID: 2023-131 Missions: Webb

    Forecast: There’s a 100% chance of recurring two-sided jets for a pair of stars that are actively gathering mass.

    At the center is a thin horizontal orange cloud tilted from bottom left to top right. It takes up about two-thirds of the length of this angle, but is thin at the opposite angle. At its center is red-and-pink star with prominent, eight-pointed diffraction spikes. It has a central yellow-white blob. The background is filled with stars and galaxies.

  5. Webb Celebrates First Year of Science With Close-up on Birth of Sun-like Stars

    July 12, 2023Release ID: 2023-128 Missions: Webb

    NASA's James Webb Space Telescope continues to wow with an action-packed image belying a relatively quiet star-forming region. 

    Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image, while a glowing pale-yellow, cave-like structure is bottom center, tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its center. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock. Above the arched top of the dust cave three groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the center, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the dark cloud. The image’s largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At the top center of the image, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically. To the left of this star is a more wispy, indistinct region.

  6. Hubble Celebrates 33rd Anniversary with a Peek into Nearby Star-Forming Region

    April 20, 2023Release ID: 2023-012 Missions: Hubble

    Dark Nebula is a Cauldron of Star Birth

    A vertical image with colors ranging from blue at the top to golden in the middle and red at the bottom. At the top, a bright blue star is illuminating surrounding clouds of gas, making the top third of the image appear blue. Below the bright star, a couple dozen fainter stars shine yellow. One of them has a fuzzy, golden arc to its left. At the center of the image, a brighter yellow star illuminates surrounding gas. It is partially obscured by dark streaks and clouds of dust, making it resemble the moon on a cloudy evening. The bottom of the image is noticeably darker than the rest, with the exception of a dramatic splash of red almost like a bug splat on a windshield. A handful of faint, red stars also appear there.

  7. Haunting Portrait: NASA’s Webb Reveals Dust, Structure in Pillars of Creation

    October 28, 2022Release ID: 2022-053 Missions: Webb

    Webb Highlights the Velvet-Like Lining of Dust Throughout This Star-Forming Region, Including Shells Around Actively Forming Stars

    Semi-opaque layers of blue and gray gas and dust start at the bottom left and go toward the top right. There are three prominent pillars rising toward the top right. The left pillar is the largest and widest. The peaks of the second and third pillars are set off in darker shades of blue outlines. Few red stars appear within the pillars. Some blue and white stars dot the overall scene.

  8. 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.

  9. NASA's Webb Telescope Will Investigate Cosmic Jets from Young Stars

    November 14, 2018Release ID: 2018-53 Missions: Webb

    Infrared Light Penetrates Dusty Cocoons to Reveal Secrets of Star Birth

    A pair of thin horizontal orange-gold jets are tilted from bottom left to top right, known as Herbig-Haro 212.

  10. Hubble Sees the Force Awakening in a Newborn Star

    December 17, 2015Release ID: 2015-42 Missions: Hubble

    Just about anything is possible in our remarkable universe, and it often competes with the imaginings of science fiction writers and filmmakers. Hubble's latest contribution is a striking photo of what looks like a doubl...

    Hubble Sees the Force Awakening in a Newborn Star

  11. NASA's Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket

    July 03, 2012Release ID: 2012-30 Missions: Hubble

    Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets from the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen. This image was taken with...

    A very wispy, semi-transparent deep blue jet of gas extends from bottom right to top left.

  12. Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars

    August 31, 2011Release ID: 2011-20 Missions: Hubble

    A team of scientists has collected enough high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope images over a 14-year period to stitch together time-lapse movies of powerful jets ejected from three young stars.

    The jets, a byprod...

    Hubble Movies Provide Unprecedented View of Supersonic Jets from Young Stars

  13. Starry-Eyed Hubble Celebrates 20 Years of Awe and Discovery

    April 22, 2010Release ID: 2010-13 Missions: Hubble

    NASA's best-recognized, longest-lived, and most prolific space observatory zooms past a threshold of 20 years of operation this month. On April 24, 1990, the space shuttle and crew of STS-31 were launched to deploy...

    Visible View of Pillar and Jets HH 901/902

  14. Movies from Hubble Show the Changing Faces of Infant Stars

    September 21, 2000Release ID: 2000-32 Missions: Hubble

    Time-lapse movies made from a series of pictures taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are showing astronomers that young stars and their surroundings can change dramatically in just weeks or months. As with most childr...

    Movies from Hubble Show the Changing Faces of Infant Stars

  15. He 2-90's Appearance Deceives Astronomers

    August 31, 2000Release ID: 2000-24 Missions: Hubble

    Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have stumbled upon a mysterious object that is grudgingly yielding clues to its identity. A quick glance at the Hubble picture at top shows that this celestial body, called...

    He 2-90's Appearance Deceives Astronomers

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