Watch as the most detailed infrared view of the Helix Nebula taken to date—from the James Webb Space Telescope—is put into context using the famous visible light image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Webb zooms into a small section of the shells of gas cast off by a dying star, revealing pillars that look like comets with extended tails. The retired Spitzer Space Telescope’s studies of the Helix Nebula, also seen here in infrared light, hinted at the formation of more complex molecules, but Web

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Sometimes sound gives us a different understanding of space 🧬 The Helix Nebula, 655 light-years away and three light-years across, was created as a low-mass star shed its outer material near the end of its life. In this sonification, scientists have assigned lower pitches to red light and higher pitches to blue light. Just as the frequencies of light increase from red to blue, frequencies of sound increase from low to high pitches. For more Hubble sonifications: https://go.nasa.gov/30ddyAT Soni