Protostars

NASA’s Webb Reveals Stars Sparking to Life in Cosmic Celebration

2 July 2026

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared light of numerous features that previously were impossible to…

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Wispy filaments of vibrant orange and electric blue cosmic dust and gas weave through a dark, star-studded expanse of outer space, creating a chaotic and intricate web of celestial matter.

16 April 2026

NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission has mapped…

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$A rectangular image of the Serpens Nebula with black vertical rectangles at the bottom left and top right to indicate missing data. A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. The upper left corner of the image is filled with mostly orange dust, and within that orange dust, there are several small red plumes of gas that extend from the top left to the bottom right at the same angle. At center-left is a larger star that is circled. This star has Webb’s signature diffraction spikes, but along the right also has an arc of white, with the circular edge starting at the center of the star. Mostly blue gas fills the center. There is a particularly bright central star. The gas to the right is a darker orange. Small points of light are sprinkled across the field. The brightest sources have extensive eight-pointed diffraction spikes.$

28 January 2026

The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled…

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