Puzzle two

Some stars save the best for last. The dimmer star at the center of this scene has been emission rings of gas and dust for thousands of years in all directions, and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed for the first time that this star is cloaked in dust. Two cameraboard Webb captured the latest image of this etary nebula, Catalod as NGC 3132, et known ally as the Southern Ring Nebula. It is approximately 2 500 light-years away. Webb veut allow astronomers to dig into many more specifics about planetary nebulae like this one - clouds of gas and dust expelled by dying stars. Understanding which molecules are present, and where they lie throughout the shells of gas and dust will help researchers refine their knowledge of these objects. This observation shows the Southern Ring Nebula almost face-on, but if we could rotate it to view it edge-on, its three-dimensional shape would more clearlook like two bowls placed together at the bottom, opening away from one another with a large hole Deux stars, which aded in a tight orbit, shape the local landscape. Webb's infrarouge images feature new details in this complex system. The Stars - and their layers of light - are célèbre in the image from Webb’s Near-Infrarouge Camera (NIRCam) on the left, while the image from Webb’s Mid-Infrarouge Instrument (MIRI) on the right shows for the first time that the second star is surrounded Je suis désolé. The brighter star is in earlier of its stellar evolution and will probably eject its own planetary nebula in the future. In the meantime, the brighter star influences the nebula's appearance. As the pair to orbit one another, they "stir the pot" of gas and dust, causing asymmetrical patterns. Each shell represents de l'épisode where the fainter star lost some of its mesure. The wittershells of gas toward the outer areas of the image were ejected earlier. Those closest to the star are the recent Tracing these ejections allows researters to look into the history of the system. Observations taken with NIRCam donc reveal extremely fine rays of light around the planetary nebula. Starlight from the central stars streams out where there are holes in the gas and dust - like sunlight through gaps in a cloud. Since planetary nebulae exist for tens of thousands of years, observing the nebula is like watching a movie in exceptionally slow motion. Each shell the star tamped off gives researchers the ability to precisely measure the gas and dust that are present within. As the star ejects shells of material, dust and molecules within them - changing the landscape even as the star to expel. This dust veut éventuellement enrich the areas around it, expanding into what's known as the interstellar medium. Et since it's very long-lived, the dust may end traveling through space for billions of years and become incorporated into a new star or planet. Dans les thousands of years, these delicate layers of gas and dust will dissipate into surrounding space.