Webb’s new infrared view of NGC 6357 shows towering spires and the giant stars of Pismis 24 shaping a stellar nursery.

Watch as we process the iconic Horsehead Nebula using the Hubble Palette (SHO) in PixInsight. Learn key tips, techniques, and color balancing tricks to make your narrowband data shine! #PixInsight ...

New James Webb Space Telescope data is revealing new insights into the Butterfly Nebula, which may explain how rocky planets form from cosmic dust, among other discoveries, as demonstrated in a new ...

Aug. 28 (UPI) --The James Webb Space Telescope has helped researchers learn new information about how the Earth may have been formed as it gives a deeper look into the Butterfly Nebula. The telescope ...

Scientists say the James Webb Space Telescope has captured an unprecedented look inside a butterfly nebula, revealing matter around a dying star. The international space community, consisting of NASA, ...

As it slowly dies, the star sheds its outer layers as twin lobes of hot, irradiated gas, which form the brilliant "wings" of the butterfly. Scientists have observed the nebula before with the Hubble ...

The cosmic butterfly has also produced plenty of PAHs – large hydrocarbon molecules that could play a key early role in prebiotic chemistry. Cosmic dust particles that give birth to planets around ...

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Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI Acknowledgments: NSF's NOIRLab, Akira Fujii , Jeff ...