JWST dives into the Helix Nebula’s 'eye' to reveal life’s elemental seeds

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JWST dives into the Helix Nebula’s 'eye' to reveal life’s elemental seeds
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The James Webb Space Telescope captured a detailed image of the Helix Nebula, a nearby planetary nebula nicknamed the Eye of God, revealing comet-like knots and gas transitions as a dying sun-like star sheds its outer layers and seeds the galaxy with carbon, oxygen and nitrogen—the building blocks of life.

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