NASA's two great space telescopes just photographed a ghostly cat 7,500 light-years away.
The new images came out on October 29, 2026, two days before Halloween.
The Cat's Head Nebula sits inside the much larger Carina Nebula, a vast star-forming cloud.
Hubble's visible-light image shows an opaque pillar of dark brown dust edged by glowing gas.
The cat's glowing eye is most likely a young star still wrapped in dust, NASA says.
Webb's near-infrared view pierces the dust and reveals a dense crowd of blue and yellow stars.
It even catches faint faraway galaxies shining through our own galaxy.
The mid-infrared image traces warm dust and carbon-based molecules lit up by starlight.
Massive stars blow winds and radiation that slowly carve the loose gas into the cat's shape.
The cat will not keep its shape forever. It will disperse as new stars form and evolve.
Hubble sees the dust's shape. Webb sees through it. Together they tell the fuller story of star birth.
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