The famous nebula in Orion, located about 1,340 light-years from Earth, is actively making new stars today. Although the optical nebula is dominated by the light from four massive, hot young stars ...

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 closest nebula to Earth is the Helix Nebula, which is about 700 light ... The new image on the left shows the nebula in the infrared, using observations from Hubble’s high-resolution Wide ...

This video sequence compares infrared and visible light views of the Lobster Nebula (NGC 6357). The visible light image created from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 and, for the central part ...

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 ...

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission captured this mosaic of the Heart and Soul nebulae. A composite image of the Crab Nebula features X-rays from Chandra (blue and white ...

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 ...

and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows different structural details of the Crab Nebula. The supernova remnant is comprised of several different components, including doubly ionized sulfur ...

Infrared Thermometers are non-contact temperature devices that use infrared radiation to infer the temperature of an object. Infrared thermometers—similar to their conventional cousins—are devices ...

Chandra and Webb teamed up for a new look at the Pillars of Creation, part of the Eagle Nebula. NASA’s Chandra ... data from Chandra melded with an infrared view from Webb.