Images of the Ring Nebula

Images of the Ring Nebula

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Although it’s visible with binoculars, the Ring Nebula is still 2,200 light-years away.NASA shares new photos of Ring Nebula captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope obtained images of the Ring Nebula, one of the best-known examples of a planetary nebula. Much like the Southern Ring Nebula, one of Webb’s first images, the Ring Nebula displays intricate structures of the final stages of a dying star. Roger Wesson from Cardiff University tells us more about this phase of a Sun-like star’s stellar lifecycle and how Webb observations have given him and his colleagues valuable insights into the formation and evolution of these objects, hinting at a key role for binary companions.

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