Lion Nebula

Taken by the James Webb Space Telescope in near- and mid-infrared (NIRCam and MIRI). The object is planetary nebula NGC 2392, shaped by a hot white dwarf at its center. The bubble of gas is the dying star’s leftover shell. Astronomers expect it to disperse in about 10,000 years.

James Webb Space Telescope · NIRCam + MIRI

Webb’s job is to read the infrared universe: first galaxies, star birth, and how stars die. Planetary nebulae like NGC 2392 are where a Sun-like star returns its outer layers to the galaxy. The program was looking at the chemistry of that ejected gas and dust — which grains survive the white dwarf’s radiation, which don’t — and at the rings and shells that are still unexplained in nebulae like this.

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