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The James Webb Space Telescope captured a detailed image of the Helix Nebula, a nearby planetary nebula nicknamed the Eye of God, revealing comet-like knots and gas transitions as a dying sun-like star sheds its outer layers and seeds the galaxy with carbon, oxygen and nitrogen—the building blocks of life.
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have released a highly detailed infrared image of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), a nearby planetary nebula nicknamed the Eye of God. The image shows hot gas winds from a dying star colliding with older shells of gas and dust, revealing comet-like knots and layered structures, and offering a glimpse of our Sun’s distant future as well as the potential for planet formation in the surrounding dust.