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  1. Aging White Dwarf Still Consuming Its Planetary System

    October 22, 2025Release ID: 2025-404 Missions: STScI

    Dead star seen ripping planet apart.

    At image center is a small, white star against a gray background. It is surrounded by a large translucent disk with rings and gaps that extends from upper left to lower right. In the foreground, irregular chunky rocks are floating in space along the bottom of the frame. A stream of material extends from lower right toward the central star. The words, artist's concept are at lower left.

  2. NASA's Webb Telescope Studies Moon-Forming Disk Around Massive Planet

    September 29, 2025Release ID: 2025-142 Missions: Webb

    The disk offers insight into how the moons of solar system gas giants like Jupiter might have formed.

    An illustration of a young planet with a surrounding disk of dust and gas potentially forming moons. The planet, which appears dark red, is shown at lower right, circled by a cloudy, clumpy reddish orange-colored disk. The host star appears at upper left, and glows yellow, with its own reddish disk of debris. The disk that surrounds the planet takes up about half the illustration. The black background of space is speckled with stars. At the bottom of the illustration, graphics of molecules are listed in the following order: diacetylene, hydrogen cyanide, propyne, acetylene, ethane, carbon dioxide, benzene. The words Artist’s Concept appear at upper right.

  3. NASA's Webb Explores Largest Star-Forming Cloud in Milky Way

    September 24, 2025Release ID: 2025-141 Missions: Webb

    The galactic center is packed with star-making material — why isn’t it producing more stars? Webb could reveal long-sought answers.

    A wide view of a region of space filled with stars and clumps of orange clouds.

  4. NASA’s Hubble Sees White Dwarf Eating Piece of Pluto-Like Object

    September 18, 2025Release ID: 2025-024 Missions: Hubble

    Only Hubble with its unique ultraviolet vision could see this event

    An illustration showing a glowing white object in the upper left corner. This object is encircled by hundreds of thin, concentric, pale-yellow rings on an angle from bottom left to top right. The rings are palest closest to the central, glowing white object. A curving trail of gray, rock-like fragments marches across the right side, through the thin rings and joins the rings at far right. The eight largest fragments of varying sizes appear in the foreground. These objects have white, comet-like tails streaking away from the glowing white object in the rings’ center. The curving trail of fragments bends toward the glowing white object. At the bottom left corner is the label Artist’s Concept.

  5. NASA’s Webb Observes Immense Stellar Jet on Outskirts of Our Milky Way

    September 10, 2025Release ID: 2025-131 Missions: Webb

    Young Star Behaves Like a Giant Roman Candle

    Gaseous yellow-orange filaments look like a rose seen from the side and tilted slightly from upper left to lower right, slightly higher than the center of the frame. Extending from the rose to upper left and lower right are gaseous outflows that appear as red lobes that have an overall shape of tall, narrow triangles with rounded tips. Each red triangle is made up of wavy, irregular lines. Dozens of stars are scattered across the field. One particularly bright white star with eight diffraction spikes is located at the top of the yellow rose. Another bright blue star with even more prominent diffraction spikes is to its lower left. The background of space is black.

  6. NASA Webb Looks at Earth-Sized, Habitable-Zone Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 e

    September 08, 2025Release ID: 2025-109 Missions: Webb

    While an original atmosphere is unlikely, scientists are narrowing possibilities for TRAPPIST-1 e’s secondary atmosphere, even as Webb observations of the exoplanet continue.

    Illustration of a star with multiple flares and four small orbiting planets. Star is at the center of the image, with a silhouetted planet to its lower right. A smaller planet is shown an inch to the left, also silhouetted. A third planet is directly to the left of the star, gray and white but without much detail, and farther out near the left edge of the image is the fourth planet, also gray with little detail.

  7. Glittering Glimpse of Star Birth From NASA's Webb Telescope

    September 04, 2025Release ID: 2025-136 Missions: Webb

    Nearby stellar nursery sheds light on massive star formation

    In what appears as a celestial dreamscape, a blue and black sky filled with brilliant stars covers about two thirds of the image. The stars are different sizes and shades of white, beige, yellow, and light orange. Across the bottom third of the scene is a craggy, mountain-like vista with spire-like peaks and deep, seemingly misty valleys. These so-called mountains appear in varying shades of orange, yellow, and brown. Above their soaring spires is a wispy, ethereal white cloud that stretched horizontally across the scene. Steam appears to rise from the mountaintops and join with this cloud. At the top right corner of the image, a swath of orange and brown structure cuts diagonally across the sky.

  8. NASA's Hubble Uncovers Rare White Dwarf Merger Remnant

    August 13, 2025Release ID: 2025-020 Missions: Hubble

    Forensic evidence comes from dwarf’s unusual spectrum

    An illustration of a white dwarf star merging with a red giant star. The red giant is an arch across the bottom of the illustration, with a textured surface. The white dwarf is a white pinpoint object at upper center right. The white dwarf in embedded inside a teardrop-shaped cocoon of white gas. It is enveloped in a white open ellipsoid that is the bow shock from speeding through the red giant’s outer atmosphere. The words “artist’s concept” are at lower left.

  9. Webb Narrows Atmospheric Possibilities for Earth-sized Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 d

    August 13, 2025Release ID: 2025-120 Missions: Webb

    Could planets orbiting red dwarf stars like TRAPPIST-1 be habitable? Webb scientists say the investigation is ongoing.

    A planet is silhouetted in front of a star. The star shows a large eruption on one side and more wisps of red coming from its southern hemisphere. Two more planets appear in the background.

  10. NASA Roman Core Survey Will Trace Cosmic Expansion Over Time

    August 12, 2025Release ID: 2025-202 Missions: Roman

    Roman’s High-Latitude Time-Domain Survey will find exploding stars that act as signposts to measure the universe’s expansion and the influence of dark energy.

    Two side-by-side images of a zoomed in portion of a galaxy, showing the same field of view. The left panel contains a very bright star with four diffraction spikes just left of center. In the right panel, the star is still visible but much fainter. Blurred versions of the same images are at top and bottom to fill in a square.

  11. NASA's Webb Finds New Evidence for Planet Around Closest Solar Twin

    August 07, 2025Release ID: 2025-135 Missions: Webb

    Data shows planet could be a gas giant, orbiting 1 to 2 times the distance between Sun and Earth.

    Three panels, each showing a different view of the binary star system Alpha Centauri. The panel at the left is a Digitized Sky Survey image showing a single bright point source at the center of a black image with small stars scattered throughout. The very center of this bright source is outlined with a vertical box, tilted slightly to the left, with two diagonal lines leading to the second panel. The Hubble Space Telescope image shows two white stars with 4 diffraction spikes each against a black background. The top star is labeled Alpha Cen B and the bottom Alpha Cen A. Alpha Cen A is outlined with a white square with two diagonal lines leading to the third panel at the furthest right, which shows a James Webb Space Telescope image of the star. Within a large white circle there is a blurry red-toned field with an orange star icon and central black circle outlined in white marking the location of Alpha Cen A. A bright orange blob at 9 o’clock in relation to the star is labeled “S1” and circled.

  12. As NASA Missions Study Interstellar Comet, Hubble Makes Size Estimate

    August 07, 2025Release ID: 2025-022 Missions: Hubble

    Icy Comet Nucleus is No Bigger Than a Few Miles Across  

    At the center of the image is a comet that appears as a teardrop-shaped bluish cocoon of dust coming off the comet’s solid, icy nucleus and seen against a black background. The comet appears to be heading to the bottom left corner of the image. About a dozen short, light blue diagonal streaks are seen scattered across the image, which are from background stars that appeared to move during the exposure because the telescope was tracking the moving comet.

  13. NASA's Webb Traces Details of Complex Planetary Nebula

    July 30, 2025Release ID: 2025-124 Missions: Webb

    More than one star contributes to the irregular shape of NGC 6072.

    Colorful, mostly red glowing cloud with a distorted, asymmetrical shape that is illuminated from within by a bright central star. The asymmetrical shape resembles a large squished bug on the ground. In the center, a light blue glow appears over areas of dark pockets that look dark blue and are traced with orange material. It has a clumpy appearance. Shells of gas and dust appear as lobes stretching from roughly 11 to 5 o’clock, another from 1 to 7 o’clock, and possibly a third from 12 to 6 o’clock. The shells become a deeper red with distance from the center. These outflows push gas toward the equatorial plane, forming a disk that appears to span from 9 to 3 o’clock. The background of space is black and speckled with tiny bright stars and distant galaxies.

  14. NASA's Hubble, Chandra Spot Rare Type of Black Hole Eating a Star

    July 24, 2025Release ID: 2025-016 Missions: Hubble

    Hubble Looks at an Intermediate Black Hole Roaming Inside a Galaxy

    Two elliptical galaxies at upper right and lower left appear as fuzzy white ovals. At bottom center is a fuzzy purple blob outlined by a white box. White lines angle outward from the corners of the box to a blow-up of the purple blob. At the center is a white dot labeled HLX-1. The main image also has two bright stars with prominent diffraction spikes. The background of space is black, and is speckled with tiny white dots.

  15. NASA's Webb Scratches Beyond Surface of Cat's Paw for 3rd Anniversary

    July 10, 2025Release ID: 2025-129 Missions: Webb

    What lies within a toe bean? According to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, mini toe beans composed of gas, dust, and stars.

    A section of the Cat’s Paw Nebula, a local star-forming region composed of gas, dust, and young stars. Four roughly circular areas are toward the center of the frame: a small oval toward the top left, a large circle in the top center, and two ovals at bottom left and right. Each circular area has a luminous blue glow, with the top center and bottom left areas the brightest. Brown-orange filaments of dust, which vary in density, surround these four bluish patches and stretch toward the frame’s edges. Small zones, such as to the left and right of the top-center blue circular area, appear darker and seemingly vacant of stars. Toward the center are small, fiery red clumps scattered among the brown dust. Many small, yellow-white stars are spread across the scene, some with eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of Webb. A few larger blue-white stars with diffraction spikes are scattered throughout, mostly toward the top left and bottom right. In the top right corner is a bright red-orange oval.

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