US EditionWebb Reveals More than One Star Contributes to the Irregular Shape of Planetary Nebula NGC 6072
CONSTELLATION OF SCORPIUS, JUL 30 – James Webb Space Telescope images reveal NGC 6072's multipolar outflows and dual stars, with the dying star losing up to 80% of its mass, enriching space with stellar material.
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The Webb telescope saw a sun-like star on its deathbed. It wasn't alone.
A dying star molting its final layers in space seems to be in the midst of a sad, solitary experience — at least from a storytelling perspective. But a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope, a collaboration of NASA and its European and Canadian counterparts, shows this drama isn't a one-star act. More than one stellar object, at least for this scene, is on the playbill.In a new look at the planetary nebula NGC 6072, located about 3,800 l…
Webb reveals more than one star contributes to the irregular shape of planetary nebula NGC 6072
Since the discovery of planetary nebulae in the late 1700s, astronomers have learned that these expanding shells of glowing gas expelled by low-intermediate mass stars late in their lives can come in all shapes and sizes. Most planetary nebulae present as circular, elliptical, or bi-polar, but some stray from the norm, as seen in new high-resolution images of the planetary nebula NGC 6072 by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
The spectacular cliché evokes the splashes of paintings on the dark of the night. In the constellation of the Scorpion, at the edge of the constellation of the Wolf, NGC 6072 presents a particularly disordered form for a planetary nebula. Such an object forms when it...
Planetary Nebula NGC 6072 in Scorpius | James Webb Space Telescope
Planetary Nebula NGC 6072 in Scorpius | James Webb Space TelescopeThe NASA/European Space Agency/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope’s view of planetary nebula NGC 6072 in the near-infrared shows a complex scene of multiple outflows expanding out at a variety of angles from a dying star at the center of the scene. These outflows push gas toward the equatorial plane, forming a disc.Astronomers suspect there is at least one other star…
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