nebula
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New images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are providing a clearer look at a mysterious and rarely studied nebula surrounding a dying star.
From Science Daily • Mar. 17, 2026
About 1,000 light years away in the constellation Cygnus, the nebula surrounds a hidden central star buried within a thick blanket of dust, resembling a glowing "yolk" inside a dark "egg white."
From Science Daily • Feb. 13, 2026
During this mission, the instrument also collected data from the Crab pulsar and its surrounding wind nebula, one of the brightest and most stable sources of X-rays in the sky.
From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2025
And perfectly in time for Halloween, they captured a spooky, red-glowing nebula that looks just like a bat signal shining across the universe!
From Space Scoop • Oct. 31, 2025
And some worlds will look out onto a vast gaseous nebula, the remains of an ordinary star that once was and is no longer.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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