{"id":296298,"date":"2026-01-21T19:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/296298\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T19:32:09","slug":"eye-of-sauron-nebula-could-give-glimpse-of-suns-death-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/296298\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Eye of Sauron\u2019 nebula could give glimpse of Sun\u2019s death | Features"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(NASA\/NOAO\/ESA\/Hubble\/STScI\/NRAO via SWNS)<\/p>\n

By Dean Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n

A jaw-dropping new view of the “Eye of Sauron” nebula<\/a> may give us a glimpse of the fate of our sun.<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> has zoomed into the Helix Nebula to give an up-close view of the final moments of a dying star<\/a> in the greatest detail.<\/p>\n

First spotted in the early 1800s, the celestial object has become one of the most iconic planetary nebulae in the sky<\/a>, often referred to as the \u201cEye of God\u201d or the Lord of the Rings-referencing \u201cEye of Sauron\u201d for its striking, ring-like shape.<\/p>\n

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(NASA\/ESA\/CSA\/STSCI\/A. Pagan via SWNS)<\/p>\n

By Talker<\/p>\n

In the image from Webb\u2019s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), pillars that look like comets with extended tails trace the circumference of the inner region of an expanding shell of gas.<\/p>\n

Here, blistering winds of hot gas from the dying star crash into colder shells of dust and gas shed earlier in its life, sculpting the nebula\u2019s remarkable structure<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ESA adds: “This happens when a lighter, faster-moving material pushes into a heavier, slower-moving one, like oil trying to push through water.”<\/p>\n

NASA Webb Mission Team said: “In Webb\u2019s high-resolution look, the structure of the gas being shed off by a dying star comes into full focus. The image reveals how stars recycle their material back into the cosmos, seeding future generations of stars and planets, as NASA explores the secrets of the universe and our place in it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(NASA\/NOAO\/ESA\/Hubble\/STScI\/NRAO via SWNS) By Dean Murray A jaw-dropping new view of the “Eye of Sauron” nebula may give…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[48424,582,70746,48418,18,146431,19,17,16274,48422,1226,48421,8197,133,4657,10214,26824,1240],"class_list":{"0":"post-296298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-astronomical-objects","9":"tag-astronomy","10":"tag-bodies-of-the-solar-system","11":"tag-dean-murray","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-helix-nebula","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-nebula","17":"tag-observational-astronomy","18":"tag-outer-space","19":"tag-physical-sciences","20":"tag-planetary-science","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-sky","23":"tag-solar-system","24":"tag-space-science","25":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115934759734814923","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}