Webb Reveals What Happens When a Sun Like Ours Dies

Webb Reveals What Happens When a Sun Like Ours Dies

Webb’s breathtaking view of the Helix Nebula shows a dying star’s final breath becoming the seeds of future worlds. First identified in the early 1800s, the Helix Nebula is one of the most recognizable planetary nebulas in the night sky, known for its dramatic ring-like appearance. Because it is one of the closest planetary nebulas [...]

Mind Blowing James Webb Photo Shows Star Crumbling Into Dust

A new image taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provides an astonishingly close up look of a dying star crumbling into gas and dust — as well as a morbid preview of the fate that could eventually befall our Sun. Taken with the Webb’s NIRCam infrared instrument, the image shows the inner ring of a luminous, expanding cloud of hot material that was exuded by a star that shed its outer layers to become a dense core called a white dwarf, whic…

NASA’s Webb Telescope Finds EC 53 and the Crystals It’s Forming

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s 2024 NIRCam image shows protostar EC 53 circled. Researchers using new data from Webb’s MIRI proved that crystalline silicates form in the hottest part of the disk of gas and dust surrounding the star — and may be shot to the system’s edges. Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (NASA-JPL), Joel Green (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI) via NASA NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found a y…