Stellar nursery Westerhout 40 © Spitzer

Looking back on the groundbreaking discoveries of NASA's little telescope that could

This infrared image of the Orion Nebula features plenty of dust but no stars. In these infrared wavelengths, it's possible to see hot spots where new stars are forming, while unseen bright, massive stars have carved out caverns of empty space.

Thanks to the James Webb Telescope, we're now able to view this stunning stellar nursery in incredible detail.

JWST captured this new image of the Ring Nebula in unprecedented detail. Formed by a star throwing off its outer layers as it runs out of fuel, the Ring…

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Here is an emission glare with the symbol Sh 2 - 155, named Cave or Grotto. It is about 2,400 light years away from us. It is a fragment of a larger, very diverse complex of nebulae : emission, reflection, and dark gas and dust clouds. It is a stellar nursery about 10 light years in diameter , in which new low-mass stars are forming. They are the ones that stimulate the surrounding nebula, composed mainly of hydrogen particles, to glow. Attached - a telescopic image taken with narrow-band…

Scientists have obtained new images of a giant stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. The European Space Agency's Herschel space telescope captured these stunning images, revealing a vast expanse of newly formed stars and nebulae. The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, provides a unique opportunity for astronomers to study star formation outside our galaxy. Being one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, it serves as an ideal laboratory for…

'NGC 604: Giant Stellar Nursery' From the #NASA_App : https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240425.html