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

Have the third image of the James Webb Space Telescope on your wall and be amazed by our space.

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.