The Butterfly nebula, an example of a star forming region in the Tarantula nebula. The white scale bar is 2 light years or about 120,000 AU (Astronomical Units). A bright central star, obscured by ...

Structural changes within the Butterfly Nebula between 2009 and 2020. Various features have moved from the black regions into the white ones during the 11-year interval. The image reveals the ...

Overall, the JWST’s advanced capabilities have provided a wealth of new data on the Crab Nebula and in turn, this will help ...

JWST's images highlight a small white dot at the centre of the nebula: the Crab Pulsar. About 1,000 years ago, astronomers documented a supermassive star exploding in a supernova, ejecting its hot ...

Read the paper: A temperate super-Jupiter imaged with JWST in the mid-infrared Direct observations are challenging, because planets are thousands (and sometimes millions) of times fainter than ...

One of JWST's debut images was this cosmic landscape painting of the Carina Nebula, located about 7,600 light-years from Earth. Lit up and sculpted by the radiation of baby stars, this is one of ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded breath-taking new images of the iconic Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57. The images, released today by an international team of astronomers ...

Located in Eagle Nebula in the Serpens constellation ... but thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Pillars truly appear like solid columns. With a normal earthbound telescope ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been an astonishing ... from stardust coalescing in the Eagle Nebula's 'Pillars of Creation' to glittering galaxies, newly discovered exoplanets ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is by far the most powerful observatory ever launched into space. Even Webb's very first images show why NASA spent 25 years and $10 billion. The Hubble Space ...