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**Astronomy Picture of the Day**

15 April 2025

**Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb**

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What happens when a star runs out of nuclear fuel? For stars like our Sun, the center condenses into a white dwarf while the outer atmosphere is expelled into space to appear as a planetary nebula. The expelled outer atmosphere of planetary nebula NGC 1514 appears to be a jumble of bubbles -- when seen in visible light. But the view from the James Webb Space Telescope in infrared, as featured here, confirms a different story: in this light the nebula shows a distinct hourglass shape, which is interpreted as a cylinder seen along a diagonal. If you look closely at the center of the nebula, you can also see a bright central star that is part of a binary system. More observations might better reveal how this nebula is evolving and how the central stars are working together to produce the interesting cylinder and bubbles observed. Jump Around the Universe: Random APOD Generator

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Goody 9mo ago

Come ON! Does this look real to you? Sit and stare for a while. It's a damn xray image of the inside of a pepper cut in half or some crap. NASA IS SATAN! Everyone needs to wake up and the hardest part is admitting you have been lied to since you were born. Since the first globe ball you see in your kindergaren class. On every single movie they reference this or that and it all brainwashing. If you repeat somethign over and over and over it becomes a reality. It's lies. This doesn't even look real. But you believe it is a real image because of what you are told about nasa your entire life.

StellarStoic 9mo ago

It's good to question things. Skepticism is part of science. But just because an image "looks weird" doesn’t mean it’s fake. Many space photos use X-rays or infrared, which are invisible to our eyes, so they’re colorized to show structure. That's standard in astronomy and even biology.

Thinking it looks like a pepper is called **pareidolia** meaning our brain seeing patterns. That doesn’t disprove the data. Also, NASA isn't alone: space agencies from around the world and even amateur astronomers confirm these observations.

If you really doubt it, try tracking the International Space Station. It's visible with your eyes or telescope. Or if you can afford it, you can fly up there with Bezos dildo space rocket 🚀 and see and feel for yourself. Real science invites you to test and verify, not just believe. Question everything, including the sources telling you Earth is flat.

#questionEverything

Fotoart 9mo ago

Beautiful!