The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a breathtaking image of Lynds Bright Nebula 483 (LBN 483), a ...
(Beverly Lynds was an astronomer who catalogued both bright nebulas – BN – and dark nebulas – DN – in the 1960s) How does the birth of stars form a nebula like this? Well, stars grow by ...
This image features a deep field view of the Cassiopeia constellation immersed in the glow of ionized hydrogen gas, where the ...
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering hourglass-shaped ejections of gas and ...
The JWST’s latest images showcase LBN 483, a nebula shaped by dynamic stellar interactions and magnetic fields.
L483 is named for American astronomer Beverly T. Lynds, who published extensive catalogues of "dark" and "bright" nebulae in the early 1960s. She did this by carefully examining photographic ...
The Necklace Nebula, formed by two doomed stars, glows with bright gas clumps like a cosmic diamond ring. Located 15,000 light-years away in the Sagitta constellation, it shines as a stunning ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured stunning images of the developing star system Lynds 483, revealing intricate gas and dust structures from p ...
The bright, visible component of the system is a giant star of spectral type A0III, while the nebula-generating companion is now a hot, sub-luminous O-type star. Previous observations of NGC 1514 ...
The bright orange arc is a shock-front where an ... polarized radio waves coming from the cold dust in the heart of the nebula — dust too cold for even JWST to detect. The polarization of ...