Amazing Southern Ring Nebula's Iconic Shape Captured by James Webb

The intricate whorls and curlicues of the Southern Ring Nebula – recently made famous for its place as one of the first objects imaged by JWST – are the product of at least four stars, new research has revealed.

The Southern Ring Nebula, officially known as NGC 3132 and located 2,460 light-years away, is the death shroud of a star that was once three times the mass of the Sun. That star is now a small, dense white dwarf with roughly half the mass of the Sun packed into a sphere the size of Earth.

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