The first bubble of hot gas seen around another star has been spotted around the "Moth," just 117 light-years away.
Webb captured the object in infrared — light wavelengths that are invisible to human eyes but can pierce through thick dust.
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured PMR 1 in Vela using NIRCam and MIRI, revealing structural layers, stellar winds, and evolutionary details of a planetary nebula.
Science News: 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, a sun-like star is reaching the closing chapter of its life. And it is not slipping away quietly. .
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the first published detection of a supernova progenitor in galaxy NGC 1637, revealing a red supergiant star before explosion.
At the center of the Egg Nebula is its yolk: a deteriorating sun-like star.