The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and creating a time lapse of the phenomena.

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

The Godzilla Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in the constellation Sagittarius that was imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The star cluster Pismis 24 lies within the much larger emission ...

Spitzer is an infrared orbiting telescope that can detect distant or ... broad rings of material orbiting a star) and "the dirty" (dust-obscured processes such as star and planet formation).

Sometimes, scientists get lucky: In 2012, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope grabbed an image of lacy interstellar medium illuminated by Zeta Ophiuchi, a large star roughly 370 light-years away.

At 4,600 light-years away, this is the closest large star cluster to Earth ... and infrared data from NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope (red, green, blue and cyan) reveals young stars ...

"Even as a star dies, its light endures—echoing ... Scientists targeted a light echo previously observed by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope, and it is one of dozens found near remains ...

There have indeed been other infrared eyes on the sky — like the now-retired Spitzer Telescope, and even Hubble has some capabilities in this realm — but none really match up to the JWST. SPHEREx ...