NASA has released the James Webb Space Telescope’s first near-infrared image of the Sombrero Galaxy, or M104, a classic edge-on spiral located roughly 30 million light-years from Earth. Captured with Webb’s NIRCam instrument, the observation penetrates the galaxy’s broad dust ring to reveal previously hidden structures in its stellar bulge and disk. Astronomers say the data will sharpen studies of how dust lanes funnel material toward the galaxy’s core and may improve estimates of star-formation rates in its outskirts. The image, issued on 8 July 2025, adds a new wavelength perspective to decades of optical views and will be made publicly available through NASA’s archive for follow-up analysis.
A stunning Hubble image reveals the Southern Crab Nebula—an intricate, butterfly‑like cloud located 7,000 light‑years away in Centaurus. At its center, a Mira variable star and a white dwarf interact, ejecting material that sculpts the nebula’s distinctive lobes and filaments. https://t.co/hAtqIaU86n
Astronomers have captured the first direct image of a supermassive black hole—M87—showing both its glowing accretion ring and a powerful jet of particles in one frame. Located 55 million light-years away, M87’s black hole weighs 6.5 billion solar masses and emits a jet moving https://t.co/aWYKCrLOxJ
**Summary in English:** The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of the spiral galaxy NGC 976, located about 150 million light-years away in the constellation Aries. Though it appears calm, NGC 976 has experienced a supernova — a powerful explosion marking the death https://t.co/WkQFID2aoh