The James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning spiral galaxy 65 million light-years away, revealing glowing dust clouds and stellar nurseries.

Gas streams gush into the Milky Way 's center and pile up into thick clouds, but for some reason, those ingredients don't materialize into as many stars as astronomers would expect.

Some of the new Hubble observations show the Cat’s Eye Nebula, also known as NGC 6543, in the finest detail ever seen. The ...