Powerful jets and radiation winds from two protostars are slamming into the nebulosity around them, sculpting the nebula.

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 ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers ... In the new images, the rings turned out to be very bright with respect to the inner shell of the nebula. Furthermore, the observations ...

Located 650 light-years from Earth (1 light-year is the distance light travels in one year, approximately 9.46 trillion kilometers), this nebula resembles an hourglass. The two protostars at the ...

The rapidly spinning neutron star embedded in the center of the nebula ... hourglass with an intricate pattern of "etchings" in its walls. This picture has been composed from three separate images ...

It can seem like JWST arrived out of nowhere, but the telescope has been the collective effort of tens of thousands of scientists over decades. Here are some of this year’s best new images.