Webb Zooms in on Helix Nebula: A Dying Star’s Dusty Curtain
TL;DR
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captures a sharp close-up of the Helix Nebula, a planetary nebula about 650 light-years away formed when a Sun-like star shed its outer layers and left a white dwarf at its center; Webb’s infrared view reveals hot gas and cooler dust, illustrating how dying stars recycle heavier elements into the cosmos and seed future planets, with binary interactions potentially triggering novae.
Topics:sciencespace#cosmic-dust#helix-nebula#james-webb-space-telescope#planetary-nebula#space#white-dwarf
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