NASA’s Webb Captures Dying Star’s Final ‘Performance’ in Fine Detail : 無料・フリー素材/写真
NASA’s Webb Captures Dying Star’s Final ‘Performance’ in Fine Detail / James Webb Space Telescope
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| 説明 | Two stars both alike in dignity, in the fair Southern Ring planetary nebula where we lay our scene...Here our “star-crossed lovers” are actually a dying star expelling gas & dust, in orbit with a younger star that is helping to change the shape of this nebula’s intricate rings by creating turbulence. The James Webb Space Telescope can see through the gas and dust in unprecedented detail. This image is from Webb’s MIRI in the mid-infrared. In thousands of years, these delicate, gaseous layers will dissipate into surrounding space. The Southern Ring nebula is called a planetary nebula. Despite “planet” in the name, which comes from how these objects first appeared to astronomers observing them hundreds of years ago, these are shells of dust and gas shed by dying Sun-like stars. The new details from Webb will transform our understanding of how stars evolve and influence their environments. Read more about the new Webb observations of this object: nasa.gov/webbfirstimages/ Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI Image description A planetary nebula seen, by Webb’s MIRI, against the blackness of space, with points of starlight behind it. Plumes of glowing bright blue gas radiate out from the oval-shaped nebula. Two separate ovals of reddish pink gas appear stacked on top of each other, inside the lacy blue gas clouds. In the center of the nebula, two stars glow close to each other. One star looks more red, while the other appears more yellow. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-07-12 10:59:20 |
| 撮影者 | James Webb Space Telescope , Greenbelt, MD, USA |
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