“I start a picture and I finish it.” – Jean-Michel Basquiat

Cataloged as NGC 3132 the Southern Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula, the death shroud of a dying sun-like star some 2,500 light-years from Earth. Composed of gas and dust the stunning cosmic landscape is nearly half a light-year in diameter, explored in unprecedented detail by the James Webb Space Telescope. In this NIRCam image […]

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Senior Project Scientist John Mather speaks with the media after the release of the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope . via NASA https://ift.tt/iUjTbDG

“Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.” – Hans Hofmann

“We sit in the mud… and reach for the stars.” – Ivan Turgenev

This is the deepest, sharpest infrared image of the cosmos so far. The view of the early Universe toward the southern constellation Volans was achieved in 12.5 hours of exposure with the NIRCam instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope. Of course the stars with six visible spikes are well within our own Milky Way. […]

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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson describes the first full-color image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. via NASA https://ift.tt/RDBrgbG

“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.” – Alexander Smith