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Exposed Cranium Nebula

In this image, the Webb Space Telescope reveals new detail of a mysterious, little-studied nebula surrounding a dying star.

PMR 1 gets its nickname, the “Exposed Cranium Nebula," from how its gas and dust resembles a brain in a transparent skull.

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A Ghostly Trio from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

In the spirit of Halloween, scientists are releasing a trio of stellar ghosts caught in infrared light by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. All three spooky structures, called planetary nebulas, are in fact material ejected from dying stars. As death beckoned, the stars' wispy bits and pieces were blown into outer space.

"Some might call the images haunting," said Joseph Hora of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass., principal investigator of the Spitzer observing program. "We look to the pictures for a sense of the history of the stars' mass loss, and to learn how they evolved over time."

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