Posted on 08/05/2025 12:15:19 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Why is this nebula so complex? The Webb Space Telescope has imaged a nebula in great detail that is thought to have emerged from a Sun-like star. NGC 6072 has been resolved into one of the more unusual and complex examples of planetary nebula. The featured image is in infrared light with the red color highlighting cool hydrogen gas. Study of previous images of NGC 6072 indicated several likely outflows and two disks inside the jumbled gas, while the new Webb image resolves new features likely including one disk's edge protruding on the central left. A leading origin hypothesis holds that the nebula's complexity is caused or enhanced by multiple outbursts from a star in a multi-star system near the center.
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Wow!!
The Webb is good at finding webs?
I gotta say….it looks like a tomato exploded….
I was thinking it looked like when I saw someone shoot a watermelon up close with a 12 ga. It was messy.
It'll kill us all! Well half of us anyway.
Yeah I’ve seen that too. I guess that’s a waste of a good watermelon, but what fun! I don’t know if you’ve seen this guy’s channel on YouTube- Edwin Sarkissian? He does some pretty wild stuff!
The star went KABLOOEY!! twice kinda like a human sneezing twice in a row...
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