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Red Spider Nebula

Handout photo dated on October 26, 2025 shows Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), NASA’s 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’s primary near-infrared imager, providing high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy for a wide variety of investigations. Webb’s new view of the Red Spider Nebula reveals for the first time the full extent of the nebula’s outstretched lobes, which form the ‘legs’ 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’s 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. Photo by ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technolo via ABAC

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Fifth World Photonics Congress 2024 in Beijing

BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 25, 2024 - Visitors experience the "intelligent infrared thermal imager" at the "Fifth World Photonics Congress 2024" in Beijing, China, July 25, 2024.

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Fifth World Photonics Congress 2024 in Beijing

BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 25, 2024 - Visitors visit a "drone Borne hyperspectral Imager" at the "Fifth World Photonics Congress 2024" in Beijing, China, July 25, 2024.

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Fifth World Photonics Congress 2024 in Beijing

BEIJING, CHINA - JULY 25, 2024 - Visitors experience the "infrared thermal imager" at the "Fifth World Photonics Congress 2024" in Beijing, China, July 25, 2024.

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Canada Faces Worst Wildfire Season On Record

Handout - The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured an image of a fire burning several hundred kilometers southwest of Yellowknife on August 16, 2023. This fire recently overran Enterprise, a small community of about 150 people on the south shore of Great Slave Lake. According to news reports, between 85 and 95 percent of the structures in the community were destroyed. Canada is facing one of the worst fire years it has seen in decades, according to data published by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. More than 13.7 million hectares (33.9 million acres) had burned as of August 17, seven times the 25-year average. Photo by NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin via ABACAPRESS.COM

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CHINA-LOBSTER EYE TELESCOPE

(221010) -- BEIJING, Oct. 10, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese researcher installs the lobster-eye telescope, or the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA), on Nov. 22, 2021. TO GO WITH "China Focus: Chinese scientists mimic lobster eye to observe universe" (NAOC/Handout via Xinhua)

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CHINA-LOBSTER EYE TELESCOPE

(221010) -- BEIJING, Oct. 10, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken in August 2022 shows an image of the central sky zone of the Milky Way obtained by the lobster-eye telescope, or the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA). TO GO WITH "China Focus: Chinese scientists mimic lobster eye to observe universe" (NAOC/Handout via Xinhua)

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CHINA-LOBSTER EYE TELESCOPE

(221010) -- BEIJING, Oct. 10, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers test the lobster-eye telescope, or the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA), on Nov. 27, 2021. TO GO WITH "China Focus: Chinese scientists mimic lobster eye to observe universe" (NAOC/Handout via Xinhua)

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NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

★Handout photo dated July 27, 2013 of the optics module of the James Webb Space Telescope's primary imager, the Near Infrared Camera, arrived at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. In this photo, Lockheed Martin engineers attach a lift sling to the NIRCam instrument. Last summer, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) set an October 31, 2021, launch date for the $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, but it's having to delay the science observatory's trip into space once again. Thankfully, the launch might take place just a few weeks later, in November or early December. A rescheduled date is unlikely to be confirmed until later this summer or perhaps in the fall. The instrument, successor to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which is the largest science observatory ever placed into space, will launch on a European Ariane 5 rocket from a spaceport in French Guiana. Photo

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