NEW JWST IMAGE shows SEVENTEEN carbon dust shells around a binary star system
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What’s a carbon dust shell and why’s that cool?
@cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca A carbon dust shell is a layer of carbon-rich material expelled from a star in it’s later stages of life in which a star ejects these shells due to stellar instability since they are the lighter, outer elements of a star.
It’s cool because JWST could even resolve detail like that!! We can also learn more about the carbon chemistry of the system, binary dynamics, and the history of the system :D
Thank you :)
Carbon is pretty important for earth, and it’s unclear how we have so much of it. Dual star systems shooting out carbon at 1% the speed of light kind of explains it pretty well: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-watches-carbon-rich-dust-shells-form-expand-in-star-system/
Carbon, like water, is a very cool
elementsubstance which doesn’t fit nicely into the known laws of physics. Like water it is also one of the most importantelementssubstances for the development of life as we know it.Water isn’t an element. It is a compound. Hydrogen and Oxygen are elements in said compound.
Later discovered that the JWST just has astigmatism.
I remember seeing this explained when Webb first launched and found it really interesting
I have so many questions. Like, was there supposed to be a link to an article? This picture alone doesn’t really answer any questions.
It’s a Mastodon toot, they only have like 180 characters or something
Oh, that makes sense.
Many instances allow much longer messages, but it depends on the admin and how they see it. Could even be thousands of characters in some cases.
Anyway, mastodon integration is nice, but there are some serious issues too.
… the Fresnel lens had a stroke?
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Sounds like some epic rhythmic banger
Looks cool, what does it mean? 17 carbon dust shells ALL THE WAYYYY.
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml This is stellar death process of a planetary nebula which, after stellar death, could allow for new planetary formaiton
That is pretty cool! I wonder what each ring represents in terms of time. I imagine it’s fairly rapid (like dozens of years?)
Cool cool cool. I imagine this potentially means we’re seeing the development of a 17 object solar system? Maybe with some of those being asteroid belts?
