"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

The Godzilla Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Sagittarius that was imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission ...

The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and creating a time lapse of the phenomena.

Sometimes, scientists get lucky: In 2012, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope grabbed an image of lacy interstellar medium illuminated by Zeta Ophiuchi, a large star roughly 370 light-years away.

There is a lot of complicated but beautiful physics in understanding how this explosion takes place,” says Purdue University ...

Scientists targeted a light echo previously observed by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and it is one of dozens found near remains of the Cassiopeia A supernova. The Webb images show ...

The light echoes were first detected by NASA's retired Spitzer Space Telescope, but Webb's high-resolution imaging has provided clearer views of these cosmic phenomena. The echoes result from a ...

Last summer, NASA opened a new program office at Goddard for the space telescope and announced it has earned $17.5 million in funding to explore some of the key technologies needed to bring the ...

This background image of the region around supernova remnant Cassiopeia A was released by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2008. By taking multiple images of this region over three years with ...