Webb telescope peels back the mystery of a stunning nebula

The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped new pictures of a cosmic cloud of gas and dust blown off by a dying star, whose fate is still unknown to scientists. 

The telescope, a partnership of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, homed in on PMR 1, a planetary nebula nicknamed the Exposed Cranium for being the spitting image of a brain scan. The nebula lies about 5,000 light-years away from Earth in the Vela constellation. 

Webb captured the object in infrared — light...