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Giant cosmic arachnid spotted by James Webb telescope could resemble the future of our own solar system

Giant cosmic arachnid spotted by James Webb telescope could resemble the future of our own solar system

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is celebrating Halloween with a stunning image showing never-before-seen details of the Red Spider Nebula. The image, snapped by JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), shows dust and gas being shed by a dying star to form a planetary nebula, its filaments twisting and stretching like the limbs of a cosmic arachnid. Lobes, which were formed …

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