NASA’s Webb Telescope captured NGC 1514’s glowing rings and dust clumps, revealing oxygen but no carbon clues to a dying star ...

The stars are surrounded by diffraction spikes, which are the starburst-like radiating lines that appear around bright ...

The rings, first detected in 2010 by Nasa’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), now appear as fuzzy clusters ...

The James Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) has proven to be essential in decoding the full complexity of NGC 1514. Capable of capturing thermal emissions from small dust grains heated by ...

The photo shows two stars in the center, one which shed its layers of dust and gas as it neared the end of its life cycle.