NASA - Poster - Aluminum - 3. Southern Ring Nebula (NIRCam Image) - James Webb Space Telescope

Have this unique aluminum print of the third image of the James Webb Space Telescope on your wall and be amazed by the space surrounding us.

Colorful image of near-infrared light from a glowing cloud with a distorted ring-like shape, illuminated from within by a bright central star.

The Southern Ring Nebula is a large, semi-transparent oval that is slightly angled from top left to bottom right. A bright white star appears at the center of this image.

A large transparent teal oval surrounds the central star. Several red shells surround the teal oval, extending almost to the edges of the image. The shells become a deeper red with distance from the center.

The bright central star has eight diffraction spikes. Behind the gaseous teal layers are deeper orange layers that are arranged like threads in a complex weaving. 

The red layers, which are wavy overall, look like they have very thin straight lines piercing through them, which are holes where light from a central star is traveling. The background of the image is black and speckled with tiny bright stars and distant galaxies.