NASA’s Webb Telescope’s first images … Observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, (left) and mid-infrared light (right.) This scene was created by a white dwarf star – the remains of a star like our Sun after it shed its outer layers and stopped burning fuel though nuclear fusion. Those outer layers now form the ejected shells all along this view. Over thousands of years and before it became a white dwarf, the star periodically ejected mass – the visible shells of material. 12 July 2022 Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI / Alamy Live News via Digitaleye

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