Fascinating! NASA's James Webb Accidentally Spied a Stunning Side View of a Galaxy - Ring Nebula

These four brand-new images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope that show our universe in never-before-seen detail were released this week, and we haven't been able to stop marvelling at them since the first image was shown this week.

However! There's a very crucial point that we first overlooked!

It appears as a streak of light in the top left of the Southern Ring Nebula photos, but it's actually a side view of a galaxy.

NASA astronomer Karl Gordon during the image reveal: "I made a bet that said 'It's part of the nebula', I lost the bet, because then we looked more carefully at both NIRcam [Near-Infrared Camera] and MIRI [Mid-Infrared Instrument] images, and it's very clearly an edge-on galaxy."

This viewpoint should enable researchers to investigate how stars are spread around the galaxy in addition to looking cool.

You're viewing stunning waves of death from the Southern Ring Nebula, a huge dust and gas cloud situated around 2,000 light-years distant, in case you missed it.

In the middle, there are two stars. The less bright object is a white dwarf, which is the collapsed core of a dead star and formerly had a mass up to eight times that of the Sun.

When it approached the end of its lifespan, it blew off its outer layers and its core compacted into an extremely dense entity, packing up to 1.4 times the mass of the Sun into a body the size of Earth.

The JWST has been able to demonstrate for the first time that this star is shrouded in dust.

The brighter star is still developing and will eventually erupt into its own nebula.

The JWST's Near-Infrared Camera captured the image located on the left, showing bubbling orange hydrogen from recently produced expansions as well as a blue cloud of hot ionised gas from the dead star's residual heated core.

Because they accumulate on the surface of hydrogen dust rings, blue hydrocarbons in the image on the right, taken by JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument, generate patterns like the orange in the preceding image.

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[Vera]

"When I see your heavens, the works of your fingers,
The moon and the stars that you have prepared,
What is mortal man that you keep him in mind,
And a son of man that you take care of him?" (Psalm 8: 3, 4)

[kumasenlac]

Observing this galaxy was not accidental - it's exactly what Webb was designed to do. The galaxy is _incidentally_ edge-on rather than face-on.

[hehnirichard]

It will be awesome if JWT can zoom into earth and give us a reference of how good the telescope is for layman’s reference. 🤞🏻

[hg-gsxu]

Blue is the shortest path to our planet Earth, and the red one is to Mars

[Sam-pnkc]

100% there are other humans in them galaxies just like us 100% fact

[diliupg]

Nasa Astronomer makes a guess and get's it wrong. Show how little anyone knows about the state of the UNBiverse. How miniscule.

[modhuakon]

Goodevening porfesiore no neget fan and rait filim skop and che chi ansar sosesibi disrait...