James Webb Telescope Unveils Unprecedented Details of Dying Star's Nebula
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope provided new images revealing intricate details of a dying white dwarf star that was once several times more massive than the sun.
- The star expelled layers of gas and dust in a slow, dense stellar wind as it evolved.
- Researchers can now examine the turbulent nature of the surrounding nebula more comprehensively with the data from the telescope.
- The clarity of the view of the star's material loss is significantly improved with Webb's observations.
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Incredible Photo of a Dying Star Shows How Far Telescopes Have Come
The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) new mid-infrared image of the planetary nebula NGC 1514, which shows a dying heart at its center ejecting vast quantities of gas and dust, is spectacular in itself. It's also an incredible example of how far space telescope imaging technology has come compared to the same object imaged by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in 2010.
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