# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLShYeCNfP2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31741264-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-24T15:58:09.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Better luck in Casa Amor — this dramatic star pair needs a recoupling💥

Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of this nebula came into focus, thanks to data from NASAWebb.

Its rings, which can only be seen in infrared light, look like “fuzzy” clumps arranged in tangled patterns, and a network of clearer holes close to the central stars shows where faster material punched through. The brighter star in the center is actually two stars that appear as one, which are set off with brilliant diffraction spikes. The stars follow a tight, elongated nine-year orbit and are draped in an arc of dust represented in orange.
 
One of these stars, which used to be several times more massive than our Sun, took the lead role in producing this scene. Once the star’s outer layers were expelled, only its hot, compact core remained. As a white dwarf star, its winds both sped up and weakened, which might have swept up material into thin shells.
 
This scene has been forming for at least 4,000 years — and will continue to change over time.

Image description: What looks like a single large, bright star (but is two) shines with bright purple diffraction spikes at the center of a large, diffuse cylinder of gas and dust that is tipped to the right. At the center is a bright pink clumpy cloud that takes up about 25% of the view. The pink region has some holes and diffuse areas. Beyond that are two large rings seen at a roughly 60-degree angle that appear joined at top left and bottom right. The edges are denser, and form shallow V-shapes that go inward. The rings appear orange at top left and bottom right, and are blue at bottom and center right. There is diffuse orange material around the body. The black background of space is speckled with tiny stars and galaxies mostly in blues and yellows.

Credit:  NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NASA-JPL, Caltech, UCLA, Michael Ressler (NASA-JPL), Dave Jones (IAC)

#NASA #Space #JWST #Telescope #Webb #Planetary #Nebula

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