{"id":249565,"date":"2025-07-11T06:09:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=927ccdf642d411d81e9774848f03a305"},"modified":"2025-07-11T06:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:09:29","slug":"nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-inspects-cats-paw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=249565","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope Inspects Cat\u2019s Paw"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1865\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg?w=1865\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A section of the Cat\u2019s Paw Nebula, a local star-forming region composed of gas, dust, and young stars. Four roughly circular areas are toward the center of the frame: a small oval toward the top left, a large circle in the top center, and two ovals at bottom left and right. Each circular area has a luminous blue glow, with the top center and bottom left areas the brightest. Brown-orange filaments of dust, which vary in density, surround these four bluish patches and stretch toward the frame\u2019s edges. Small zones, such as to the left and right of the top-center blue circular area, appear darker and seemingly vacant of stars. Toward the center are small, fiery red clumps scattered among the brown dust. Many small, yellow-white stars are spread across the scene, some with eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of Webb. A few larger blue-white stars with diffraction spikes are scattered throughout, mostly toward the top left and bottom right. In the top right corner is a bright red-orange oval.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg 11055w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg?resize=273,300 273w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg?resize=768,843 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg?resize=933,1024 933w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg?resize=1399,1536 1399w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg?resize=1865,2048 1865w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg?resize=364,400 364w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg?resize=546,600 546w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg?resize=820,900 820w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg?resize=1093,1200 1093w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/54644815047-f6aaedf588-o.jpg?resize=1822,2000 1822w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1865px) 100vw, 1865px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">To celebrate its third year of revealing stunning scenes of the cosmos in infrared light, NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope has \u201cclawed\u201d back the thick, dusty layers of a section within the Cat\u2019s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). <\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope team released this image of the Cat\u2019s Paw Nebula on July 10, 2025, in honor of the telescope\u2019s third anniversary. Webb\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/webb\/nircam\/\" rel=\"noopener\">NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera)<\/a>\u00a0 revealed never-before-seen structural details and features: Massive young stars carve away at nearby gas and dust, while their bright starlight produces a bright nebulous glow represented in blue. As a consequence of these massive stars\u2019 lively behavior, the local star formation process will eventually come to a stop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/webb\/nasas-webb-scratches-beyond-surface-of-cats-paw-for-3rd-anniversary\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Take a tour through this section of the Cat\u2019s Paw Nebula.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope team released this image of the Cat\u2019s Paw Nebula on July 10, 2025, in honor of the telescope\u2019s third anniversary. Webb\u2019s\u00a0NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera)\u00a0 revealed never-before-seen structural details and features: Massive young stars carve away at nearby gas and dust, while their bright starlight produces a bright nebulous glow represented in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15616],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nebulae"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249946,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249565\/revisions\/249946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}