Three Years of Webb Discoveries
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Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach in collaboration with NASA’s Universe of Learning partners: Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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- Zoom in to the the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334): NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Acknowledgement: VISTA, Akira Fujii, DSS.
- 3D visualization of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334): NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
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Images of nebulae, galaxies, stars, a Mars rover, Jupiter, and other space phenomena. Text: News From the Universe.
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Three Years of Webb Discoveries. July 18, 2025. A photo of deep space with a bright orange star in the top center, orange and brown nebula gases on the left, and countless blue, red, and white stars dotting the background. Lines are drawn through the brightest stars with the orange one in the middle and a shaded scorpion is overlaid on the constellation. Text: In July NASA's James Webb Space Telescope celebrated three years of groundbreaking science. The image zooms in on a red star cluster within the curve of the scorpion's tail. Within the cluster, the red fades and is replaced by pink and blue gasses around bright white stars. Text: It's third anniversary image and video show a star-forming portion of the Cat's Paw Nebula, NGC 6334, in unprecedented infrared detail. The image shifts to infrared with wisps of brown, blue, and orange gasses around a few very bright white stars. Text: Massive young stars are carving away at nearby gas and dust, while their bright starlight is producing a nebulous glow, represented in blue. One bright star sits in a cavity in the nebula with blue around it, with the brown, red, and pink gases forming a cavern-like space around it. Text: The darkest areas are dense dust clouds that shelter still-forming stars while blocking the light of stars in the background. From nearby nebulae to new mysteries in the early universe, Webb is revealing the infrared universe like we've never seen it before. This news was brought to you in part by the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.
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