James Webb's amazing catch from Death of a Star        

Digiato: The Jones-Emberson Nebula 1 is shown in stunning detail with a broad- and deep-band transmission that itself is a composite of 22 hours of exposure.

The Jones-Emberson Nebula 1, about four light-years across, is a ready bed for the death of a star similar to our Sun, located 1,600 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cephalus.

The expanding remnants of the star's atmosphere were transported into interstellar space during its destruction. After billions of years, this star has been condemned to death due to the exhaustion of its central fuel source, which was provided by the fusion of hydrogen and helium.

Near the center of the nebula, a bluish-hot white dwarf remains from the remnants of the star's core. Also known as PK 164 +31.1, this nebula is faint and difficult to see with a telescope eyepiece.

The nebula is shown in stunning detail in today's NASA image, which is a wideband and deepband transmission that itself is a composite of 22 hours of exposure. Also, stars in our Milky Way galaxy, as well as background galaxies, are scattered across the image's clear field of view.

Jones-Emberson 1 will disappear from the cosmic scene in the next few thousand years. However, its central hot white dwarf star will take billions of years to cool.