Detailed images of the Ring Nebula captured by NASA's James Webb Telescope have been released.
The two new images released by NASA on Monday show the structures of the final stages of a dying star and help researchers better understand the life cycles of stars, according to the space agency.“When we first saw the images, we were stunned by the amount of detail in them.
"Within the ring, there is a narrow band of emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs — complex carbon-bearing molecules that we would not expect to form in the Ring Nebula. Outside the bright ring, we see curious 'spikes' pointing directly away from the central star, which are prominent in the infrared but were only very faintly visible in Hubble Space Telescope images.
Wesson also said the Mid-InfraRed Instrument images of the nebula brought the"surprising revelation" of 10 concentric features appearing within the halo outside the bright ring. "Our MIRI images provided us with the sharpest and clearest view yet of the faint molecular halo outside the bright ring. A surprising revelation was the presence of up to ten regularly-spaced, concentric features within this faint halo. These arcs must have formed about every 280 years as the central star was shedding its outer layers," Wesson said.The James Webb Space Telescope was launched into space by NASA in December 2021.
Breakthroughs from the Webb Telescope have been able to allow scientists to understand better the formation of the universe and of planets, such as Earth.
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James Webb Space Telescope offers a mesmerizing look at the Ring Nebula (photos)Monisha Ravisetti is Space.com's Astronomy Editor. She covers black holes, star explosions, gravitational waves, exoplanet discoveries and other enigmas hidden across the fabric of space and time. Previously, she was a science writer at CNET, and before that, reported for The Academic Times. Prior to becoming a writer, she was an immunology researcher at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York. She graduated from New York University in 2018 with a B.A. in philosophy, physics and chemistry. She spends too much time playing online chess. Her favorite planet is Earth.
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Susie Webb | The Texas TribuneSusie Webb was a summer 2023 data visuals fellow based in Austin. During her fellowship, she was a senior at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying journalism, global studies and data science. She has worked as the data editor and city and state editor for The Daily Tar Heel, where she helped build the paper’s online multimedia presence. Previously, she was a metro news reporter for The C…
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