At the center of NGC 1514 lies a binary star system—a white dwarf and ... and may have interacted gravitationally to sculpt the nebula’s peculiar hourglass shape. JWST’s detailed views ...

The JWST continues to live up to its promise by revealing things hidden from other telescopes. One of its lesser-known ...

Why it's so special: The death of a star can be ... the center of the nebula is what looks like a single bright star. Appearances can be deceptive; it's actually a binary system, with the dense ...

While NASA describes it as an hourglass shape ... Another bright star appears to the lower left of the central binary, but it isn't part of the system. The NGC 1514 nebula sits roughly 1,500 ...

Known affectionately as the Crystal Ball Nebula ... into an hourglass shape due to the presence of the other half of the pair, which has created the two bright rings. “When this star was at ...

Scientists are studying the nebula's turbulence and unique hourglass shape ... of some sort of interaction between the two stars in the system. He proposes that the companion star had gotten ...

The Webb telescope — a scientific collaboration between NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency — is designed to peer into the deepest cosmos and reveal new insights about the early universe. It's ...