{"id":170281,"date":"2023-08-23T11:23:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T16:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/james-webb-space-telescope-makes-surprising-discovery-in-halo-of-dying-star"},"modified":"2023-08-23T11:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T16:23:26","slug":"james-webb-space-telescope-makes-surprising-discovery-in-halo-of-dying-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/james-webb-space-telescope-makes-surprising-discovery-in-halo-of-dying-star","title":{"rendered":"James Webb Space Telescope makes \u201csurprising\u201d discovery in halo of dying star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/james-webb-space-telescope-makes-surprising-discovery-in-halo-of-dying-star2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed intricate details of a dying star\u2019s final stages, NASA said Monday. The Ring Nebula images, featuring a glowing halo and vibrant colors, also led to a surprising discovery, one astronomer said.<\/p>\n<p>Webb\u2019s Mid-Infrared Instrument provided the clearest view yet of the faint molecular halo, the space agency said. It captured up to 10 concentric \u201carcs\u201d in the halo, which scientists believe formed about every 280 years as the central star shed its outer layers.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Wesson, a research associate at Cardiff University who reviewed the Webb telescope\u2019s observations, called the discovery of the arcs a \u201csurprising revelation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed intricate details of a dying star\u2019s final stages, NASA said Monday. The Ring Nebula images, featuring a glowing halo and vibrant colors, also led to a surprising discovery, one astronomer said. Webb\u2019s Mid-Infrared Instrument provided the clearest view yet of the faint molecular halo, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}