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astrojaz.bsky.social Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · Dec 4
this is a combined view of the hubble and webb views of the ring nebula and oh my god it’s SO beautiful 🌌
The Ring Nebula (M57), is more complicated than it appears through a small telescope. The easily visible central ring is about one light-year across, but this remarkable combined exposure by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope explores this popular nebula with deep exposures in visible and infrared light. Strings of gas, like eyelashes around a cosmic eye, become evident around the Ring in this digitally enhanced featured image in assigned colors. These long filaments may be caused by shadowing of knots of dense gas in the ring from energetic light emitted within.
December 4, 2024 at 8:02 AM