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Red Spider Planetary Nebula from Webb

By |2026-02-03T15:44:24-05:00February 3rd, 2026|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Oh what a tangled web a planetary nebula can weave. The Red Spider Planetary Nebula shows the complex structure that can result when a normal star ejects its outer gases and becomes a white dwarf star. Officially tagged NGC 6537, this two-lobed symmetric planetary nebula houses one of the hottest [...]

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The Spider and the Fly

By |2025-02-11T08:09:15-05:00February 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , |

Photo of the Day Will the spider ever catch the fly? Not if both are large emission nebulas toward the constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga). The spider-shaped gas cloud in the image center is actually an emission nebula labelled IC 417, while the smaller fly-shaped cloud on the left is dubbed NGC 1931 and [...]

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