IT House News on August 22, the European Space Agency (ESA) recently released an official blog post, showing a photo of the Ring Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing many details in high resolution.
Photographed by a near-infrared camera (NIRCam).
Mid-infrared instrument (MIRI) shooting
Photo taken by Hubble
The Ring Nebula is located approximately 2500 light-years from Earth and is a planetary nebula located in the constellation Lyra in the Northern Hemisphere. This object is the final stage in the evolution of a red giant before becoming a white dwarf , expelling a gas shell to its surroundings and ionizing the celestial body.
ESA showed images taken using the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which show different details of the Ring Nebula by contrast, giving us more insight into this beautiful cosmic entity.
ESA says there are about 20,000 dense globules rich in hydrogen molecules inside the ring nebula, which astronomers took while advancing the James Webb Space Telescope observation program GO 1558.