Rising like a giant seahorse from turbulent waves of dust and gas is the Horsehead Nebula, otherwise known as Barnard 33. This image shows the region in infrared light, which has longer ...
Why it's so special: NGC 6357, also called the Lobster Nebula, is busy giving birth to ... and 13 years to compile — the biggest-ever infrared map of the Milky Way galaxy. Infrared-sensitive ...
The JWST's mid-infrared observations support this hypothesis ... Other ring-shaped planetary nebulas, such as the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293 in Aquarius), have also been shown to have bi-lobed ...
The famous Helix Nebula represents not only a beautiful ... from Hubble’s visible-light view and that of the view in the ...
Dense clouds of cosmic dust in the nebula obscure star-forming structures from instruments that rely on visible light, like the Hubble Space Telescope. By gathering infrared light, Webb is able to ...
The star V830 Orionis shines on the cloud of material left over from its formation, here seen as the NGC 1999 reflection nebula The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks ...