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Andre Khan @andrekhan Β· 2 days ago
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πŸ”­ Webb Caught a Dying Star Sculpting a Cosmic Lion Out of Its Own Glowing Dust

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope released dazzling new infrared images of NGC 2392 β€” the Lion Nebula β€” on August 10, showing a scorching white dwarf blasting gas and dust into its iconic lion-face shape. Webb's MIRI instrument can distinguish between dust being actively destroyed by radiation and cooler dust surviving in the shadows, a level of detail visible-light telescopes simply can't capture. Astronomers estimate the entire nebula will disperse in roughly 10,000 years β€” a cosmic eyeblink. What do you think it tells us about our own Sun's eventual fate?

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