{"id":16345,"date":"2026-02-26T11:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/new-webb-telescope-photos-show-off-the-exposed-cranium-nebula\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:56:42","slug":"new-webb-telescope-photos-show-off-the-exposed-cranium-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/new-webb-telescope-photos-show-off-the-exposed-cranium-nebula\/","title":{"rendered":"New Webb Telescope photos show off the Exposed Cranium Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">It&rsquo;s always a fun day for the space nerds when a NASA team has new images to share from the James Webb Space Telescope. Today&rsquo;s pair has brains on the brain, with a look at the fittingly named Exposed Cranium Nebula. More officially, this cloud of space dust and debris is known as Nebula PMR 1. The images shared today may capture a moment in the final stages of a star, as well as giving hints as to how the nebula got its brain-like shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">&ldquo;The nebula appears to have distinct regions that capture different phases of its evolution &mdash; an outer shell of gas that was blown off first and consists mostly of hydrogen, and an inner cloud with more structure that contains a mix of different gases,&rdquo; NASA&rsquo;s blog post reads. The dark line that runs vertically through the nebula, giving it the cranial appearance, could be the result of &ldquo;an outburst or outflow from the central star, which typically occurs as twin jets burst out in opposite directions.&rdquo; Both Webb&rsquo;s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and its Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) were used to document the nebula.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>New Webb Telescope photos show off the Exposed Cranium Nebula<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s always a fun day for the space nerds when a NASA team has new images to share from the James Webb Space Telescope. Today&rsquo;s pair has brains on the brain, with a look at the fittingly named Exposed Cranium Nebula. More officially, this cloud of space dust and debris is known as Nebula PMR&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/new-webb-telescope-photos-show-off-the-exposed-cranium-nebula\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;New Webb Telescope photos show off the Exposed Cranium Nebula&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}