Astronomers have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JMST) to gain a new perspective on the iconic Ring Nebula in unprecedented detail.
The new image captures details not seen before in the colorful fog.
Astronomers describe the nebula as a beauty in spectacular detail.
Overwhelmed
The structure of the Ring Nebula is so strong that it can be seen through amateur telescopes, and has been observed for years, reports CNN.
– I first saw the Ring Nebula as a child through a small telescope. “I would never have thought that one day I would be part of the team that would use the most powerful space telescope ever built to look at this object,” astrophysicist Jan Cami, a core member of the JWST Ring Nebula Imaging Project, said in a statement .
He is a professor of physics and astronomy at Western University’s Institute for Earth and Space Exploration in London, Ontario.
Well known
For many sky enthusiasts, the Ring Nebula is a well-known object that is visible all summer and is located in the constellation Lyra.
A small telescope will already reveal the characteristic doughnut-like structure of glowing gas that gave the Ring Nebula its name, writes UCL News.
2023-08-05 18:56:51
