{"id":644965,"date":"2026-10-29T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644965\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T15:54:10","slug":"exploring-the-cats-head-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644965\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Cat&#8217;s Head Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This visualization explores imagery from NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hubble<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/webb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">James Webb Space Telescopes<\/a> of the Cat\u2019s Head Nebula, a relatively small, dusty filament containing forming stars located within the massive Carina Nebula.<\/p>\n<p>Each telescope and wavelength of light offers unique information. Hubble\u2019s visible-light view shows the cat-shaped dust filament as dark brown and opaque against a colorful gas backdrop. An ionization front on the right side of the \u201ccat\u201d highlights where dust is being heated and essentially evaporated. Webb\u2019s infrared-light reveals faint background dust pillars that are unseen in visible light. In mid-infrared light, the emission from the warm dust, which is being excited by starlight, shines brightly. Moving to the near-infrared view, Webb pierces through some of the dust to reveal many stars. In each image, the cat\u2019s eye, which is most likely a young star embedded in the dust, glows brightly.<\/p>\n<p>The Cat\u2019s Head Nebula is a temporary scene that will eventually disperse, but in the meantime, Hubble and Webb\u2019s views of the nebula are helping scientists learn more about the complexities of star formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This visualization explores imagery from NASA\u2019s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes of the Cat\u2019s Head Nebula, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[184027,6071,12488,20270,111,139,69,147,392,5436],"class_list":["post-644965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-emission-nebulae","tag-hubble-space-telescope","tag-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst","tag-nebulae","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}