NGC 6072: A Dying Star’s Final Moments Caught by James Webb

James Webb Space Telescope image of planetary nebula NGC 6072, showing glowing blue gas surrounded by fiery red-orange filaments created by the dying star’s expanding outer layers.

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown a glimpse of a dying star that you have rarely seen before. What you are seeing in this photo is not a colorful painting, but a star taking its last breaths. This cloud-like shape of glowing gas and dust is actually a planetary nebula named NGC 6072, which … Read more