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๐ŸŒŒ SpacePicture of a Day: JWST Images The Lion's Head Nebula ๐Ÿช

JWST Images The Lion's Head Nebula


Are we looking at the future of our Sun? The James Webb Space Telescope captured todayโ€™s composite image of the Lionโ€™s Head Nebula (NGC 2392) with its NIRCam and MIRI instruments. The Lionโ€™s Head Nebula is the remnant of a Sun-like star. This star was unable to sustain the nuclear fusion in its core needed to remain stable. It began to shed layers of gas and dust into space, forming this planetary nebula. A hot stellar core, called a white dwarf, is left behind within the lionโ€™s nose. Do not boop this nose! Intense radiation from the white dwarf is ionizing the gas as it expands, creating the irregular bubble that makes up the lionโ€™s face. Dust clumps that have survived the white dwarfโ€™s radiation and a cloud of ionized gas make up the lionโ€™s mane. This new and more detailed view of the nebula will help humanity learn more about how the gas and dust interact with each other and the white dwarf radiation.


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Oleg KononenkoISS
Nikolai ChubISS
Tracy Caldwell DysonISS
Matthew DominickISS
Michael BarrattISS
Jeanette EppsISS
Alexander GrebenkinISS
Butch WilmoreISS
Sunita WilliamsISS
Li GuangsuTiangong
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