The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), humanity’s most powerful eye in the sky, has turned its golden mirrors toward the Helix Nebula, capturing the terrifying beauty of a dying star in high-resolution infrared glory. The image shows the star's final breaths: blistering winds of hot gas slamming into cooler, slower-moving shells of dust ejected millennia ago. The White Dwarf: At the center sits the perpetrator: a white dwarf star. At the center sits the perpetrator: a white dwarf star. The carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen being pumped out by the Helix Nebula will eventually coalesce to form new stars, new planets, and perhaps, one day, new life.
