Overview

• JWST’s NIRCam captured unprecedented structural details of the Opera House in the Cat’s Paw Nebula, located about 4,000 light-years away in Scorpius.
• The images reveal massive young stars carving away surrounding gas and dust and producing a bright nebulous glow that highlights protostellar filaments.
• Analysis indicates the energetic behavior of these newborn stars will eventually quench further star formation in this local cloud.
• Over its third year, Webb’s coronagraph delivered direct images of exoplanets in the HR 8799 system, offering new insights into their formation.
• Webb’s spectrographs detected unexpected bright hydrogen emission in galaxy GZ-z13-1, tracing conditions just 330 million years after the Big Bang.