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  1. New NASA 3D Visualization Explores the Carina Nebula Complex

    May 07, 2025Release ID: 2025-300

    Iconic Webb image transforms into a 3D landscape of gas, dust, and stars.

    The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line forming peaks and valleys in the top third. At the bottom is a brown cloudscape forming a nebula. At the top is a comparatively clear upper portion in blue. Speckled across both portions are innumerable stars of many sizes.

  2. Traverse Across Space with the Interactive Image Tours

    April 29, 2025Release ID: 2025-301

    NASA’s Universe of Learning has released a new, dynamic way for users to explore NASA’s breathtaking images of the universe—ViewSpace Interactive Image Tours. These Tours are another unique experienc...

    Three astronomical objects, each represented as a cutout image separated by diagonal lines. The left cutout shows a colorful field of dusts and gases. One ridge of dust and gas is outlined with a dotted green line. Slightly below the outline, a bright red light is circled with a dotted green line. Three dotted green arrows point from the circled red light toward the outlined ridge. The central cutout shows one arm of a spiral galaxy. The spiral arm, a thick filament of dust and gas, begins near a bright yellow core and swirls outward, clockwise. There are pockets of pink, which are star-forming regions. All other details within the region are covered with a darkened overlay. The right cutout shows two jets of hot gas shooting out from central stars.  There is a white dashed line outlining a thick line of soft brown dust and gas, which is the edge of the nebula. This edge and its outline stretch from the bottom left of the cutout to the bottom-center before curving upward and ending at the top-right.

  3. Iconic Pillars of Creation Star in NASA’s New 3D Visualization

    June 26, 2024Release ID: 2024-300

    The new visualization enables viewers to explore fundamental questions in science, experience how science is done, and discover the universe for themselves.

    Mosaic of the Pillars of Creation visualization model, composed of 4 alternating strips of Hubble and Webb versions oriented 45 degrees clockwise from vertical.

  4. Exploring Stephan’s Quintet with Multiple Senses

    June 20, 2023Release ID: 2023-301

    Experts created two new visual and auditory experiences to explore the complexity and beauty of a compact galaxy group known as Stephan’s Quintet. The guided three-dimensional visualization surveys the galaxies...

    A glowing horizontal line sweeps across Stephan’s Quintet, a compact galaxy group. The five galaxies appear close to each other in the sky: two in the middle, one toward the top, one to the upper left, and one toward the bottom. Four of the five appear to be touching. The one toward the bottom is somewhat separated. The galaxies are large relative to the hundreds of much smaller (more distant) galaxies in the background. All five galaxies have bright white cores. The four galaxies toward the top of the image have streaks of blue and red. Some of the galaxies are peppered with white dust-like specks. Each galaxy is unique in size, shape, structure, and exact coloring. Scattered across the image, in front of the galaxies, are a number of foreground stars with diffraction spikes: bright white points, each with eight bright lines radiating out from the center.

  5. NASA Wants You to Help Study Planets Around Other Stars

    January 10, 2023Release ID: 2023-300

    The Exoplanet Watch project invites you to use your smartphone or personal telescope to help track worlds outside our solar system.

    A photograph shows a desert butte in front of a night sky glittering with stars. The band of the Milky Way crosses the sky diagonally, from top left to middle bottom. It looks like a glowing cloud filled with dust and stars above the desert landscape.

  6. NASA Webb's First Full Color Images, Data Are Set to Sound

    August 31, 2022Release ID: 2022-040

    New Tracks Combine Science and Art, Improving Experiences for Blind and Low-Vision Communities

    Illustration representing Webb science set to sound. At bottom left is a large electric guitar amplifier at a slight angle. Music notes emanate from the front of the speaker and drift across the frame. In the middle, superimposed on the starry background is a large hexagon representing various aspects of Webb Science: stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae, and black holes.

  7. Laugh and Learn about the Science of Exoplanets in the Fun-Filled 'Astrophysics Variety Hour'

    March 29, 2022Release ID: 2022-301

    A new video explains the science of exoplanets in an approachable way with a talented and "star-studded" cast.

    The video series title, "The Astrophysics Variety Hour!" sits in the upper-right quadrant. To the right, the show host, Felicia Day, smiles at the camera. A gold mechanical model of a solar system is under the title. Tiny bright stars and nebulous orange gas fill the background.

  8. Visualization Explores a Massive Star's Great Eruption

    January 25, 2022Release ID: 2022-004

    The Violent Star Eta Carinae Model Is Based On Multiwavelength Observations

    Multiwavelength visualization of gas and dust surrounding the star Eta Carinae

  9. NASA's Great Observatories Help Astronomers Build a 3D Visualization of Exploded Star

    January 05, 2020Release ID: 2020-03

    Movie Dissects the Nebula's Intricate Nested Structure

    NASA's Great Observatories Help Astronomers Build a 3D Visualization of Exploded Star

  10. Habitable Zone: Scorched Earth Enigma

    July 09, 2019Release ID: 2019-40

    As NASA celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing and looks forward to our return to the Moon, we invite you to watch "The Habitable Zone: Scorched Earth Enigma," a science grounded sci-fi video from the...

    An artist’s visualization depicts a fictional spaceship examining the impact of a host star on one of its orbiting planets.

  11. Explore Exoplanets with NASA and Stars of “The Expanse” and “General Hospital”

    February 06, 2019Release ID: 2019-14

    A new educational video series called “The Habitable Zone” introduces audiences to the science of exoplanets and their potential for habitability through a framework of short science fiction stories. This...

    An artist’s visualization of a spaceship inspecting a fictional habitable zone exoplanet.

  12. Interactive Website Reveals the Unseen Universe

    December 10, 2018Release ID: 2018-60

    The universe is filled with light that we can’t see without specialized detectors. Beyond light visible to the human eye are other forms of light, including infrared, ultraviolet, and X-ray. The difference betwe...

    Viewspace logo above Earth image