We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...
Previous theories suggested the nebula might be ring-shaped or resemble a soap bubble. However, the new model, based on SMA data, confirms its ellipsoidal structure ... This new approach of using the ...
In addition to helping the researchers nail down the nebula's ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also confirmed that the stellar corpse of the bygone star known as a white dwarf, which is seen as ...
Previous theories suggested the nebula might be ring-shaped or resemble a soap bubble. However, the new model, based on SMA ... JWST imaging to tease out the 3D structures of these objects gives ...
but the model created from the SMA data revealed it is an ellipsoid. The SMA data pinpoint the velocities and locations of the carbon dioxide molecules ejected by the dying star that generated the ...