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APOD: 2025 August 5 B NGC 6072: A Complex Planetary Nebula from Webb
Explanation:
Why is this nebula so complex?
The Webb Space Telescope has imaged a nebula
in great detail that is thought to have emerged from a
Sun-like star.
NGC 6072 has been resolved into one of the
more unusual and complex examples of
planetary nebula.
The
featured image is in
infrared light with the red color highlighting cool
hydrogen gas.
Study of previous images of NGC 6072 indicated several likely
outflows and two
disks inside the jumbled gas,
while the new Webb image resolves new features
likely including one disk's edge protruding on the central left.
A leading
origin hypothesis holds that the nebula's complexity is caused or enhanced by multiple
outbursts from a star in a
multi-star system near the center.
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See also:
- APOD: 2025 August 31 B NGC 7027: The Pillow Planetary Nebula
- APOD: 2025 August 22 B A Tale of Two Nebulae
- APOD: 2025 July 29 B A Helix Nebula Deep Field
- APOD: 2025 July 13 B Planetary Nebula Mz3: The Ant Nebula
- APOD: 2025 June 9 B Between Scylla and Charybdis: A Double Cosmic Discovery
- APOD: 2025 May 14 B NGC 1360: The Robins Egg Nebula
- APOD: 2025 April 27 B IC 418: The Spirograph Nebula