Webb captures the Helix Nebula in stunning detail, revealing a star's final breath
TL;DR
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released a high‑resolution image of the Helix Nebula, a nearby planetary nebula about 655 light-years away, showing vivid gas pillars around a white dwarf core. The colors map temperature and chemistry, illustrating the dying star's final breath and the raw material that could seed new planets, building on Hubble’s iconic views with sharper detail and new insights into how planetary systems may form from stellar death.
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