10 stunning images of star birth captured by NASA

Dubbed “Mystic Mountain,” this is a region of the much more extensive Carina Nebula. In it, towers of cool hydrogen gas laced with dust are seen to rise along the nebula’s wall.

A jet from a newly formed star flares into the shining depths of reflection nebula NGC 1977 in this Hubble image.

The glowing, clumpy streams of material shown moving left and right in this Hubble image are the signposts of star birth.

This picture, an assembly of individual images taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows young stars at the center the Orion nebula.

The pinkish-red jets seen in James Webb image.

The first anniversary image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope displays star birth like it’s never been seen before, full of detailed, impressionistic texture.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date

In the Hubble version of the model (left), the pillars feature dark brown, opaque dust and bright yellow ionized gas set against a greenish-blue background.

A mosaic of visible-light (Hubble) and infrared-light (Webb) views of the same frame from the Pillars of Creation visualization.

The image, taken from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, shows Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797).