Horsehead Nebula: Yeigh or Neigh? 🐴
The Horsehead Nebula is famously known for…looking like a horse’s head. Webb captured the top of the "horse's mane," giving us the sharpest infrared images of the region to date:
Hubble's 34th launch anniversary is this week! 🥳
We're celebrating with this new image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula. Located about 3,400 light-years away, this nebula formed when lobes of gas expanded out from a dying star at the center.
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Happy
#EarthDay
! There’s no place like our home planet: still the only place we know of with life.
That’s why researchers have used observations of Earth to better understand how the atmospheres of habitable, Earth-sized exoplanets might look to Webb:
#EarthDay
is almost here! But first… let’s take a selfie. 🌎🤳
Celebrate with us by sharing a photo of you in your favorite part of this watery world and tag it with
#GlobalSelfie
.
#OTD
in 2018,
@NASA
launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to search for new worlds. So far, it’s discovered 432 planets and 7,138 planet candidates! Here are some of the wondrous worlds.🧵⬇️
What might it be like to witness our cosmic beginnings?
@CarnegieScience
astronomer emeritus Alan Dressler takes us through the origins of the Webb Telescope and how it is peering back through time and space to see the first stars and galaxies:
Are you a wordsmith?
It's
#NationalHaikuDay
!
Send us your best work 💛
If you're inspired by Webb's science and engineering, send us your poem (haiku or not) at GSFC-NASAWebb
@mail
.nasa.gov. Not sure where to start? Dive into our treasury of images: