Ring Nebula in unprecedented detail


The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed colorful new portraits of the iconic Ring Nebula.

Smithsonian Magazine

The new images capture the complex details of the planetary nebula, an enormous cloud of cosmic gas and dust that’s home to the remnants of a dying star.

The two images were taken in different wavelengths of infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, using instruments on the space observatory. Webb previously captured a different perspective on the Ring Nebula, as well as the similar-looking Southern Ring Nebula….

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