{"id":670969,"date":"2026-10-31T15:22:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670969\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T15:22:22","slug":"nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-captures-eerie-cats-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670969\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope Captures Eerie Cat&#8217;s Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Intricate structures within the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/ghostly-cats-head-nebula-lurks-within-sight-of-nasas-hubble-webb\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Cat\u2019s Head Nebula<\/a> are illuminated in this mid-infrared view from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope released on Oct. 29, 2026. The distinctive \u201ccat\u2019s head\u201d shape of the nebula was likely sculpted over time by the intense ultraviolet radiation and winds from massive stars in the Carina Nebula. As this stellar feedback erodes the surrounding gas and dust, denser material within the feline-shaped pillar resists erosion, at least for now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intricate structures within the Cat\u2019s Head Nebula are illuminated in this mid-infrared view from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,15742,82,247],"class_list":["post-670969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nebulae","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}