The Butterfly Nebula was first discovered in the 1970s, but it's core had been obscured by dust (ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, K. Noll, J) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has peered through a dense ...
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A nebula is a luminescent giant cloud of dust and gas in space that could be from a supernova or could be a star-forming region. The "dumbbell nebula," also known as Messier 27, is what astronomers ...
James Webb has revealed that the Butterfly Nebula hides a complex mix of gemstone-like crystals, fiery dust, and unexpected carbon molecules. The discovery may rewrite how we understand the chemistry ...