Nebula
A Rare Gourd
A Rare Gourd NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the Calabash Nebula, showing the death of a low-mass star. The star is undergoing a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, expelling its outer layers into space. The ejected material is moving at incredible speeds, with gas shown in yellow […]
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Red Spider Nebula
Red Spider Nebula The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula. The image reveals the full extent of the nebula’s outstretched lobes, which form the ‘legs’ of the spider and are traced by light emitted from H2 molecules. The lobes are shown to be closed, bubble-like […]
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Inspects Cat’s Paw
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Inspects Cat’s Paw NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has released an image of the Cat’s Paw Nebula to celebrate its third anniversary, revealing new structural details and features. The telescope used its NIRCam camera to capture the nebula, which shows massive young stars carving away at nearby gas and dust. […]
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Far Out
Far Out Pismis 24, a star cluster located 8,000 light-years from Earth, was initially thought to be a single massive star. The star’s mass was estimated to be around 200-300 solar masses, making it potentially the most massive known star in the galaxy. However, measurements taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope revealed that Pismis 24-1 […]
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X-ray Clues Reveal Destroyed Planet
X-ray Clues Reveal Destroyed Planet In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing Earth. These end stages of a star’s life can be utterly beautiful – as is the case with this planetary nebula called the Helix Nebula. Astronomers study these objects by looking at all kinds […]
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