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A dying star carved this tangled cloud of gas and dust.

NGC 6072, captured in infrared by the Webb Space Telescope, shows overlapping disks and outflows that hint at a chaotic past—possibly shaped by a multi-star system.

📅 Aug 5, 2025
📷 NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / JWST
🔭 #NGC6072 #PlanetaryNebula #JWST #InfraredAstronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap

📸 Cat's Paw Nebula from JWST

This stunning nebula, also known as NGC 6334 or the Bear Claw, lies 5,700 light-years away in Scorpius. Captured in infrared by the James Webb Space Telescope, it reveals a turbulent stellar nursery where stars nearly 10 times the Sun’s mass are still forming.

📷 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

#CatsPawNebula #NGC6334 #JWST #NASA #InfraredAstronomy #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #Space #Scorpius

📸 NGC 4651: The Umbrella Galaxy
This deep image reveals a tidal stream of stars, the remains of a smaller galaxy torn apart by NGC 4651. The stream extends nearly 100,000 light-years above the main spiral disk.

📅 June 30, 2025
📷 Rabeea Alkuwari & Anas Almajed
🔗 https://stellarsnap.space

#APOD #Astronomy #NGC4651 #UmbrellaGalaxy #Space #Galaxy #TidalStream #ComaBerenices #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #DeepSky #Cosmos

📸 NGC 4651: The Umbrella Galaxy
This deep image reveals a tidal stream of stars, the remains of a smaller galaxy torn apart by NGC 4651. The stream extends nearly 100,000 light-years above the main spiral disk.

📅 June 30, 2025
📷 Rabeea Alkuwari & Anas Almajed
🔗 https://stellarsnap.space

#APOD #Astronomy #NGC4651 #UmbrellaGalaxy #Space #Galaxy #TidalStream #ComaBerenices #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #DeepSky #Cosmos

📸 NGC 4651: The Umbrella Galaxy
This deep image reveals a tidal stream of stars, the remains of a smaller galaxy torn apart by NGC 4651. The stream extends nearly 100,000 light-years above the main spiral disk.

📅 June 30, 2025
📷 Rabeea Alkuwari & Anas Almajed
🔗 https://stellarsnap.space

#APOD #Astronomy #NGC4651 #UmbrellaGalaxy #Space #Galaxy #TidalStream #ComaBerenices #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #DeepSky #Cosmos

📸 NGC 4651: The Umbrella Galaxy
This deep image reveals a tidal stream of stars, the remains of a smaller galaxy torn apart by NGC 4651. The stream extends nearly 100,000 light-years above the main spiral disk.

📅 June 30, 2025
📷 Rabeea Alkuwari & Anas Almajed
🔗 https://stellarsnap.space

#APOD #Astronomy #NGC4651 #UmbrellaGalaxy #Space #Galaxy #TidalStream #ComaBerenices #Astrophotography #StellarSnap #DeepSky #Cosmos