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The Ring Nebula looks like a portal

- James Webb Space Telescope
November 18, 2024 at 2:36 AM
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my favorite jwst images 🌌
A star cluster is shown inside a large nebula of many-coloured gas and dust. The material forms dark ridges and peaks of gas and dust surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright. This image of the Ring Nebula, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, appears as a distorted doughnut. The nebula’s inner cavity hosts shades of blue and green, while the detailed ring transitions through shades of orange in the inner regions and pink in the outer region. The ring’s inner region has distinct filament elements. Stars litter the scene, with a particularly prominent star with 8 long spikes in the top right corner. The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view. Cassiopeia A, a circular cloud of gas and dust with complex structure. The inner shell is made of bright pink and orange filaments studded with clumps and knots. Around the exterior of the inner shell, particularly at the upper right, there are curtains of wispy gas that look like campfire smoke. The white smoke-like material also appears to fill the cavity of the inner shell, featuring structures shaped like large bubbles. Around and within the nebula, there are various stars seen as points of blue and white light. Outside the nebula, there are also clumps of yellow dust, with a particularly large clump at the bottom right corner that appears to have very detailed striations.
November 16, 2024 at 1:56 AM
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The Heart Nebula
November 15, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Johannes Hevelius was not only a brilliant astronomer but also an artist! He did the engravings by himself. Engravings of C/1652 Y1 from his "Cometographia" and of comet C/1672 E1 from his "Epistola De Cometa Anno MDCLXXII". Unfortunately, not in my collection. ☄️🔭 #historyofastronomy #histsci
engraving showing the path of a comet in the sky with visualized constellations as persons or animals engraving showing the path of a comet in the sky with visualized constellations as persons or animals
November 16, 2024 at 6:03 PM
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NIRCam version of NGC 346.
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A star forming region sweeps across the scene, dominated by hues of purple. Tones of yellow outline the region's irregular shape. Many bright stars dominate the scne, as well as countless smaller stars the scatter the image's background.
November 16, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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St Mary’s Catholic Church, Kensal Green.
The stone arched entryway to a family mausoleum. The windows and the door have long since been lost to time, but the viewer can see to the end of the small stone room where the sunlight is peering through the empty arched windows. The floor is tiled elaborately in colourful painted tiles of red and blue leaves and small mosaic patterns. Some of the flooring has been lost to time, and the empty windows allow leaves to scatter the floor. At the end of the small space is a small stone alter where one may light a candle. On the alter is a carved cross. The viewer can see the other gravestones through the window into the churchyard.
November 15, 2024 at 1:35 PM