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 ...

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.

The Southern Ring Nebula was imaged in December 2022 by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which revealed molecular ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a ... or isolated brown dwarfs since the launch of JWST," Pueyo said. Rémi Soummer, who directs 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 ...

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 ...

This composite picture of the Helix Nebula was assembled by astronomers by blenindg ultra-sharp NASA Hubble Space Telescope images combined with the wide view of the Mosaic Camera on the National ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured stunning images of ... constellation. The JWST image highlights the dramatic gas and dust ejections of two protostars at the nebula's centre.