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James Webb Space Telescope performs brain surgery on mysterious 'Exposed Cranium Nebula'

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Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? The James Webb Space Telescope's latest imagery is its most "cerebral" yet, capturing a dying star's nebula that looks uncannily like a brain inside a transparent skull. Located about 5,000 light-years away in the constellation of Vela, the Sails, the nebula is officially called PMR 1. It is named after the astronomers who discovered it — Parker, Morgan and Russell — while conducting a survey with the 1.2-meter U.K. Schmidt Telescope at the Australian Astronomical Observatory in the late 1990s. When the Spitzer Space Telescope observed PMR 1 in infrared light in 2013, the nebula's appearance led to its unofficial nickname of the "Exposed Cranium Nebula." Now the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken a new look at PMR-1 with both its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).…

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