Space Telescope Science Inst.May 7, 2025
Experience the Cosmic Cliffs like never before! #NASAWebb’s iconic image of dusty “mountains” and “valleys” is featured in a new 3D visualization from NASA’s Universe of Learning: webbtelescope.pub/4jRHIh9
Space Telescope Science Inst.May 6, 2025

Exploring a new neighborhood can be exciting. 🏠 🏡

After its commissioning, #NASAWebb looked at one of our neighbors: dwarf galaxy WLM. This portion of the galaxy, which shows many faint stars, demonstrates Webb’s ability to study stellar populations: https://bit.ly/3XUcn4y

Space Telescope Science Inst.May 5, 2025
Hot sub-Neptunes are larger than Earth, smaller than Neptune, and orbit closer to their stars than Mercury orbits the Sun. These planets are common across the galaxy, but absent from our solar system. Check out what #NASAWebb discovered: https://webbtelescope.pub/4jcqydW
Space Telescope Science Inst.Apr 30, 2025

Slow your scroll! Watch an animation showing how winds and light from massive stars form pillars. The pillars’ tips are the densest.

Where have you seen pillars? Show us #NASAWebb and Hubble images in the comments!

Read more: https://bit.ly/41HF2Mj

Space Telescope Science Inst.Apr 28, 2025
NGC 604, seen here by #NASAWebb, contains more than 200 of the hottest, most massive types of stars. All of these stars are in the early stages of their lives, giving astronomers and opportunity to study their development: https://bit.ly/3FkTe5g
Space Telescope Science Inst.Apr 25, 2025

Today is #WorldPenguinDay! This infrared image from #NASAWebb, taken to mark its second year of science, shows an interaction between a distorted spiral galaxy at center, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical galaxy at left, the Egg.

Take a closer look: webbtelescope.pub/3EP21MO

Space Telescope Science Inst.Apr 18, 2025
The blue star cluster shining in the center of the Tarantula Nebula—seen in this #NASAWebb image, was born within the ribbons of silk-like dust that surround it. In time, all of this dust will either be blown away by or absorbed into new stars and planets: https://bit.ly/4bI5Tv5
Space Telescope Science Inst.Apr 17, 2025
Explore the formation of a star, as only #NASAWebb can. This 3D tour exposes the structures around the protostar L1527 IRS in infrared light. Telescopes that observe visible light see L1527 as a dark, featureless cloud.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqkcZhcfTOs
Webb Reveals the Protostar L1527 IRS — Visualization

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Space Telescope Science Inst.Apr 14, 2025
This new #NASAWebb image shows a dying star in unprecedented detail. Mid-infrared light highlights tangled patterns in the rings and holes in the pink interior. This scene was produced by two overlapping stars that “pop” with blue spikes at center: https://bit.ly/424Lygw
Space Telescope Science Inst.Apr 11, 2025

A cavernous area fit for a dragon. 🐉

#NASAWebb revealed more than 200 massive, young stars among the pillars of gas and dust in star-forming region NGC 604. This area is more than 2.7 million light-years from Earth in the Triangulum galaxy: https://bit.ly/4icfWLh