NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Unveils Remarkable Never-Before-Seen Views Of Red Spider Nebula

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed stunning, unprecedented details of the Red Spider Nebula using its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam).

This new image, for the first time, fully reveals the Red Spider Nebula’s outstretched lobes — the dramatic structures that create the spider’s “legs” — according to NASA.

Launched in 2021 as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope is now the planet’s premier space science observatory, capable of detecting infrared radiation across the universe. (RELATED: Northeast Will Be Colder Than Literally Anywhere Else On Earth, Climatologist Warns)

In the James Webb image, the sprawling lobes appear in striking blue tones, traced by the glow of light from H₂ molecules — pairs of hydrogen atoms that are bonded.

“These lobes are shown to be closed, bubble-like structures that each extend about 3 light-years,” notes NASA, and that gas streaming outward from the nebula’s core has filled vast bubbles throughout thousands of years.

The sharp infrared imaging of the NIRCam delivered high-resolution detail critical for this discovery and will power a broad range of future scientific analyses.

There’s beauty in the breakdown.

When a Sun-like star reaches the end of its life, it creates a planetary nebula like this one. Webb’s new observations of the Red Spider Nebula reveal never-before-seen detail. https://t.co/1kTLFEYftA pic.twitter.com/jTL0h7o6tC

— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) November 14, 2025

In other science-related news previously reported on by the Daily Caller, a research team found one of the world’s rarest flowers in Indonesia, doing so after a 13-year search and risking tiger attacks in the process.

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