first spied<\/a> by the German-British astronomer William Herschel on January 17, 1787.<\/p>\n\u201cWebb\u2019s infrared vision highlights features like compact clumps of dust and a haze of ionized gas,\u201d the Webb astronomers said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s taken several thousand years for this collection of gas and dust to reach its current shape, and the nebula\u2019s components continue to be altered.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe source of these constant changes and the reason for the nebula\u2019s distinct appearance is located at the center: the remains of a dying star.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe oxygen-rich central star has left behind a white dwarf that is \u2018cooking\u2019 everything from the inside and producing a bubble of ionized gas as it does.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe gas bubble is expanding over time and destroying dust that is in its path.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnderstanding why the swept-up gas has a complex structure of rings and shells, a common feature in planetary nebulae, is an ongoing endeavor.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new image of the Eskimo Nebula was captured using the NIRCam and MIRI instruments onboard the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Eskimo Nebula will continue to undergo changes as its gas and dust migrate away from the stellar core,\u201d the astronomers said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe estimate the nebula will eventually disperse in approximately 10,000 years, a relatively short period in astronomical terms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New infrared observations of the Eskimo Nebula, a bipolar double-shell planetary nebula in the constellation of Gemini, reveal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[83512,278123,3320,1022,278124,43873,278125,3323,3324,111,139,278126,69,1188,147,2737,3329,20698],"class_list":["post-565094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-bipolar-planetary-nebula","tag-clownface-nebula","tag-csa","tag-esa","tag-eskimo-nebula","tag-ir","tag-lion-nebula","tag-nasa","tag-nebula","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-ngc-2392","tag-nz","tag-planetary-nebula","tag-science","tag-star","tag-webb","tag-white-dwarf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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