Two telescopes, one ghostly cat: Hubble and Webb look into the same stellar nursery

Inside the Carina Nebula, about 7,500 light-years away, a dusty pillar being sculpted by nearby stars happens to trace the shape of a cat's head. NASA's Hubble telescope sees it in visible light as a dark, opaque silhouette with one glowing red 'eye' — possibly a young star still wrapped in dust. The James Webb telescope's infrared view slips through that dust, revealing the pillar's fine surface and a dense scatter of stars forming inside. Together, the paired images show stellar feedback at work: newborn stars reshaping the very cloud that made them.