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NASAAll throughout the cosmos, planetary nebulae appear.
When lower-mass, Sun-like stars run out of fuel, they blow off their outer layers in a planetary nebula, but the center contracts down to form a white dwarf, which takes a very long time to fade to darkness. Some white dwarfs will shine for trillions of years; others are on their way to an inevitable supernova when they collide with another white dwarf or accumulate enough mass to detonate.
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The Red Spider Nebula Gets Its JWST Glow-Up
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Astronomy · United StatesBack on June 23, 2025, the “first look observations” from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory were released, highlighting the power of the United States’s and the National Science Foundation’s newest telescope. Designed to survey a large portion of the entire sky over and over, more deeply and in a speedier fashion than ever before, its science goals are stupendous. Armed with capabilities that no other observatory can match, it hopes to:
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Astounding stream of stars caught escaping from nearby galaxy
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