The Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Ring Nebula with its two main imagers, revealing gas formations in unprecedented detail.
Image of the Webb Pillars of Creation Telescope
The stunning image shows the hydrogen-rich clumps in the nebula and its interior filling with hot gas. The nebula – first discovered in 1779 – was imaged by the Near Infrared Webcam (NIRCam) and the Medium Infrared Instrument (MIRI), showing various aspects of the structure and composition of planetary nebulae.
The new NIRCam image highlights aspects of the inner ring filament structure, whereas the MIRI image shows aspects of the nebula’s outer concentric features. It’s important to note: The Ring Nebula (NGC 6720) that was recently imaged is not the same as the Southern Ring Nebula (NGC 3132), which Webb shot last year.
According to the European Space Agency launch Revealing the image, the nebula is similar to a donut shape, with a rugby ball-shaped mixture of gas and dust falling into the nebula’s opening (a donut hole, to continue measuring).
Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in outer space. Many nebulae form when stars die, and some nebulae are regions where new stars are born. According to NASA. The Ring Nebula is located 2,500 light years from Earth. The nebula’s main rings consist of gas pushed out by dying stars in the nebula’s core. The star will eventually become a white dwarf. our own Sun may have a nebula When it finally ends in five billion years, and it will be a white dwarf, although we will hardly see it (never say never)!
Outside the nebula’s main ring there are about ten concentric arcs, which according to the same version may originate from interactions between the main dying star at the center of the nebula and its low-mass companion; By studying a nebula, astronomers can deduce the details of the stars that gave rise to it.
Surprisingly, two different images of the same nebula can have different colors. But Webb observes objects at infrared wavelengths, which means our eyes literally can’t handle Webb’s raw images. The data-rich raw images are displayed in black before the Webb image processor translates the infrared data into visible light wavelengths– which is what they did with the images in this article, pinpointing a specific aspect of the nebula in each image.
from some of the Deepest views of the universe To study Planetary rings in our solar system Webb is giving astronomers a new view of space. And we (the audience) savor the brilliance of all that the universe has to offer, from the oldest light we can see to Uranus.
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2023-08-21 21:33:10
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