Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.

Webb telescope captures PMR 1 nebula 5,000 light-years away that resembles a cosmic brain, revealing how dying stars create ...

Now the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken a new look at PMR-1 with both its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and its ...

The latest images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have revealed new details in a mysterious, little-studied nebula ...

Astronomers have revealed striking new images of a mysterious nebula that appears to resemble a giant brain floating in space ...

Oregon stargazers have plenty of reasons to look up throughout August – a month marked by meteor showers, planetary conjunctions, and even a visible nebula. A formation known as the "dumbbell nebula" ...

New images taken by NASA’s Webb Space Telescope show the sharpest images yet of a portion of a horse-shaped nebula which was discovered more than a century ago. A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in ...

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Astronomers have discovered a vast cloud of high-energy particles called a wind nebula around a rare ultra-magnetic neutron star, or magnetar, for the first time. The find offers a unique window into ...

The Cocoon Nebula, an emission nebula spanning 12 arcminutes (1/5 degree) in the constellation Cygnus, is approximately 4,000 light-years distant and possesses a diameter of 15 light-years. This ...