Location of M57 in the constellation Lyra
AUGUST 4, 2023 BY CAROLYN COLLINS PETERSEN
Brace yourselves for great JWST views of the iconic Ring Nebula (M57). An international team of astronomers just released a fantastic near-infrared image of the nebula, showing incredible details...
It's beyond my ability to understand how the sun can stay burning for the hundreds of millions of years it's been in existence and for billions more.
Looks cool.
What’s up with the flat 90 degree lines on the edges?
Is that just a decrease in the optic lense?
Question from a novice: how are we to interpret the various colors in the composite image?
What does the green color composed of? What about the fringe pink lighted area? Are we looking at this nebula from the top down?
Curious if there’s a simple explanation for laymen? Thanks.
This will look like a grainy deguerotype 5 billion years from now.
That would make a cool abstract painting
Is this the one nicknamed the “Eye of God”?
I think the JWST ought to take one picture a year of the Cat’s eye nebula in visible light, for however long the telescope is in operation. Each year publish a new animated GIF with the new image added. You’ll be able to see it expand over time. They did that with a few images from Hubble. Wish they’d continued that, and made a much longer sequence. From a science standpoint, you could actually see a lot of interesting details as the streams of gas and stuff expand and interact, so it would have a real purpose in addition to updating the GIF every year.