{"id":322970,"date":"2025-11-26T04:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=c0429f1a3b5e335c0cd171e610b7c930"},"modified":"2025-11-26T04:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:09:15","slug":"red-spider-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=322970","title":{"rendered":"Red Spider Nebula"},"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\/11\/potm2510a.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/potm2510a.jpg?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"A multicolored nebula stands out against the star-studded background of space. The nebula\u2019s central star is hidden by a blotchy pinkish cloud of dust. A strong red light radiates from this area, lighting up the nearby dust. An elongated purple \u2018S\u2019 shape is centered on the heart of the nebula, while two blue lobes stretch diagonally outward to the edges of the image, making the entire structure look like a tilted hourglass.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/potm2510a.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/potm2510a.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/potm2510a.jpg?resize=768,576 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/potm2510a.jpg?resize=1024,768 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/potm2510a.jpg?resize=1536,1152 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/potm2510a.jpg?resize=400,300 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/potm2510a.jpg?resize=600,450 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/potm2510a.jpg?resize=900,675 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/potm2510a.jpg?resize=1200,900 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/potm2510a.jpg?resize=2000,1500 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">ESA\/Webb, NASA &amp; CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Using its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/webb\/nircam\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Near-InfraRed Camera<\/a>\u00a0(NIRCam), NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope captured never-before-seen details of the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula, in this image <a href=\"https:\/\/esawebb.org\/images\/potm2510a\/\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released on Oct. 26, 2025<\/a>. NIRCam is Webb&#8217;s primary near-infrared imager, providing high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy for a wide variety of investigations.<\/p>\n<p>Webb\u2019s new view of the Red Spider Nebula reveals for the first time the full extent of the nebula\u2019s outstretched lobes, which form the \u2018legs\u2019 of the spider. These lobes, shown in blue, are traced by light emitted from H2 molecules, which contain two hydrogen atoms bonded together. Stretching over the entirety of NIRCam\u2019s field of view, these lobes are shown to be closed, bubble-like structures that each extend about 3 light-years. Outflowing gas from the center of the nebula has inflated these massive bubbles over thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: ESA\/Webb, NASA &amp; CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using its\u00a0Near-InfraRed Camera\u00a0(NIRCam), NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope captured never-before-seen details of the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula, in this image released on Oct. 26, 2025. NIRCam is Webb\u2019s primary near-infrared imager, providing high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy for a wide variety of investigations. Webb\u2019s new view of the Red Spider Nebula reveals for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[15637,15674],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst","category-planetary-nebulae"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322970","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322995,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322970\/revisions\/322995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}