Dying star lights up the Helix Nebula

In the Helix Nebula, a star much like our own is dying. Its death, though, creates a spectacle for us to appreciate now we have the James Webb Space Telescope to observe it. Knots of bright gas, fierce stellar winds, the dust that new things come from-and the possible eventual fate, NASA reports, of our own solar system. — Read the rest

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