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In area, no one can hear you yell– or meow, for that matter. This was as real for Félicette — the roaming Parisian tuxedo feline who securely finished the world’s very first (and just) suborbital feline flight, in 1963– as it is for the colossal Cat’s Head Nebula, which is included in sensational brand-new images from the Hubble and James Webb area telescopes.

Increasing from the cloudy Carina Nebula some 7,500 light-years from Earth, the Cat’s Head Nebula is a column of star-sculpted gas and dust that slightly looks like a feline sitting with its back to us, coyly turning its head to display a single red eye. That eye is a young star that’s ingrained deep within the dust and potentially changing it before our eyes.

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