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Space Telescope Science Inst.

Mission Operations Center for the James Webb Space Telescope. Also operating the Hubble Space Telescope and upcoming Roman Space Telescope.

Hubble has uncovered a supermassive black hole that was only revealed when a hapless star was ripped apart in a spectacular burst of energy. There may be more wandering supermassive black holes like this lurking inside galaxies: https://bit.ly/4j51XYo

A fuzzy orange-yellow oval occupies the middle fourth of the image. It extends from 10 o’clock to 4 o’clock. A bright white spot is located within the oval but offset to the upper left from the core. An additional smaller, grainy, orange disk it located at lower right. A couple of additional orange points are in the frame. The background of space is black.

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

Launched into orbit 35 years ago, Hubble remains one of the most valuable pieces of technology in our search for information about the universe.

Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, ESA, and STScI.

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

$Thousands of clearly differentiated objects of various color, size, shape, and brightness. Most of the objects are points or solid circles of reddish-orange, blue, or white light. These are the stars that make up the WLM galaxy. A few blue-white foreground stars with Webb’s distinct 8-pointed diffraction pattern, and a number of spiral and disk-like background galaxies are also visible.$

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

Illustration showing a large fuzzy blue planet in the foreground, and an orange-yellow star, which appears much smaller, in the background. The side of the planet facing the star is lit, and the side facing away is dark. The boundary between the lit and dark sides is fuzzy. The atmosphere is almost homogeneous in color and texture, with extremely subtle variations and no sign of a surface. The black background of space is scattered with tiny white points of light. The words “Artist’s Concept” is in the lower left corner.

#NASARoman will track cosmic changes over time in unprecedented scale and clarity. Discover the dynamic universe with Roman. Credit: NASA, STScI, Caltech/IPAC.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4TDwzti0T4

Take a look at the stars of the Taurus constellation in three dimensions. The familiar pattern on the sky distorts into a whole new perspective. ✨
https://youtu.be/eXypAmN2fyM

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

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

$At the center of the image is a nebula on the black background of space. The nebula is comprised of clumpy, red, filamentary clouds. At the center-right of the red clouds is a large cavernous bubble, and at the center of the bubble there is an opaque blueish glow with speckles of stars. At the edges of the bubble, the dust is white. There are several other smaller cavernous bubbles at the top of the nebula, including two tiny cavities at the top center of the image. There are thousands of stars that fill the surrounding area outside the nebula, most of them are yellow or white. At 11 o’clock and 6 o’clock there are extremely bright stars with 8 diffraction spikes. There are also some smaller, red stars and a few disk-shaped galaxies scattered across the image.$

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

$Arp 142, two interacting galaxies, observed in near- and mid-infrared light. At left is NGC 2937, nicknamed the Egg. Its center is the brighter and whiter. There are six diffraction spikes atop its gauzy blue layers. At right is NGC 2936, nicknamed the Penguin. Its beak-like region points toward and above the Egg. Where the eye would be is a small, opaque yellow spiral. The Penguin’s distorted arms form the bird’s beak, back, and tail. The tail is wide and layered, like a beta fish’s tail. A semi-transparent blue hue traces the Penguin and extends from the galaxy, creating an upside-down U over top of both galaxies. At top right is another galaxy seen from the side, pointing roughly at a 45-degree angle. It is largely light blue. Its length appears approximately as long as the Egg’s height. One foreground star with large, bright blue diffraction spikes appears over top of the galaxy and another near it. The entire black background is filled with tiny, extremely distant galaxies.$

Take a close-up look at a small portion of the magnificent Rosette Nebula, as photographed by Hubble. Though Hubble cannot take 3D pictures, this video is a visualization treatment of the photo to give a sense of depth with foreground and background stars.
https://youtu.be/fs96MQSyXXA

Zoom across 6,500 light-years through a star-studding field to visit the planetary nebula NGC 2899, as photographed by Hubble for its 35th anniversary.
https://youtu.be/1ukMbEN4ijk

Forming stars are hidden inside thick cocoons of dust, emitting light in several wavelengths that pass through the dust clouds and can be detected by different telescopes.

Slide through the wavelengths to see stars forming in the Rosette Nebula: https://viewspace.org/interactives/unveiling_invisible_universe/star_formation/rosette_nebula

A visible wavelength image of the Rosette Nebula. The center of the nebula contains a cavity filled with blue stars of different sizes and diffuse blue gas. This cavity is surrounded by a layer of yellow gas, which itself gives way to another concentric circle layer of red gas. The gas mixes in between, creating an orange gas. Column-like pillars of denser gas and dust point towards the central star cluster, forming ridges dotted with smaller dark globules at the edges of the layers. A particularly prominent darker ridge in the yellow layer curves from about 12 o’clock to 3 o’clock. At about the 1 o’clock position, a long pillar with a two-pronged end, which looks a little like a wrench, extends from the ridge towards the center. Toward the corners of the image, the gas becomes more diffuse, giving way to the black background of space. White stars of different sizes and are spread throughout the gas in the nebula.

Hubble has spent 35 years in orbit! Celebrate with an array of compelling images recently taken by Hubble: Mars, dramatic views of stellar birth and death, and a magnificent spiral galaxy: bit.ly/4jjsAs7

Composite shows four Hubble images in quarters. At top left is a crisp view of Mars in shades of orange, blues, and browns. At top right is planetary nebula NGC 2899, which is shaped like a single macaroni noodle, with its central torus appearing semi-transparent and blue and green, and its top and bottom edges in orange. At bottom left is a tiny portion of the Rosette Nebula. Very dark gray material shaped like a triangle takes up the center. At bottom right is barred spiral galaxy NGC 5335 with a milky yellow center that forms a bar surrounded by multiple blue star-filled spiral arms that wrap up counterclockwise.

CNN's "The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper" takes a look at the James Webb Space Telescope as it takes us on a journey to the beginning of time to hopefully answer humanity’s most existential questions. STScI's Ori Fox joins the conversation.
https://youtu.be/-btuvdE29jg?si=MxammXEkCm39j1U-

In this Hubble image of galaxy NGC 4258, young stars show up in ultraviolet light, older stars in its core are white, and dust shimmies and scurries across the bottom in brown.

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI.

A portion of a large galaxy takes up the frame and is cut off at all edges, with the largest cuts at top and right. At center-right is the galaxy’s bright white oval core, which is seen at an angle. There is a dark brown dust lane that starts at lower left and ends in an arc toward the top right. Beyond that are light purple speckles, which are clusters of stars, that take a rough halo shape. The light from the core extends just beyond the first “halo” of purple stars. Toward the top and left edges are smaller, finer purple stars scattered in a few places, but a lot less structure overall. The background of space is black.

This towering structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust might only be a small portion of the Eagle Nebula, but it is no less majestic in appearance for it. This new Hubble image is part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations, coming later this week.
https://youtube.com/shorts/CzkD1XtaW80?feature=share

Zoom through space to arrive at NGC 1333, a dark nebula bursting with star formation, as seen by Hubble. Raw material surrounding the nebula fuels a firestorm of star birth that is taking place inside a dusty cocoon. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI.

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

$A star-forming nebula. The nebula is composed of tan-colored clouds with rust-colored highlights, surrounding a black central area containing a bright cluster of sparkling pale blue stars that scatter outward from a densely packed center. The clouds toward the center are brighter than those toward the edge. The bottom left and the top right of the nebula appear more clear of any clouds of dust and gas. One bright yellow star stands out in the central open area, showing off Webb’s eight-pronged diffraction pattern.$

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

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