File:Southern Ring Nebula (NIRCam and MIRI Images Side by Side).png
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العربية: هذه صورة عالية الجودة لبقايا نجم عاش قبل ملايين السنوات، يُطلق عليها «سديم الحلقة الجنوبية»، وهي سحب ملونة من الغاز والغبار أطلقها النجم الآفل قبل أن يموت. الصورة الشمالية مأخوذة بنطاق الضوء المرئي، أمّا اليمنى فالتقطها مقراب جيمس ويب الفضائي بنطاق الأشعة تحت الحمراء حيث اكتشف العلماء وجود نجمين متجاورين في نواة جسم السديم، لم يكن من الممكن رؤيتهما بالنطاق المرئي.
English: This side-by-side comparison shows observations of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light (L) and mid-infrared light (R), from NASA’s Webb Telescope. The central star has a white dwarf orbiting it to the lower left.
In the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image, the white dwarf is partially hidden by a diffraction spike. The same star appears – but brighter, larger, and redder – in the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) image. The images look very different because NIRCam and MIRI collect different wavelengths of light. NIRCam delivers higher-resolution images, while MIRI goes farther into the infrared and can see gleaming dust around the stars. The white dwarf is cloaked in thick layers of dust, which make it appear larger. The brighter star in both images hasn’t yet shed its layers. It closely orbits the dimmer white dwarf, helping to distribute what it’s ejected. Over thousands of years and before it became a white dwarf, the star periodically ejected mass – the visible shells of material. Stellar material was sent in all directions – like a rotating sprinkler – and provided the ingredients for this asymmetrical landscape. Today, the white dwarf is heating up the gas in the inner regions – which appear blue at left and red at right. Both stars are lighting up the outer regions, shown in orange and blue, respectively. In the circular region at the center of both images is a wobbly, asymmetrical belt of material. This is where two “bowls” that make up the nebula meet. (In this view, the nebula is at a 40-degree angle.) This belt is easier to spot in the MIRI image, as a yellowish circle, but is also visible in the NIRCam image. The light that travels through the orange dust in the NIRCam image – which look like spotlights – disappear at longer infrared wavelengths in the MIRI image. In near-infrared light, stars have more prominent diffraction spikes because they are so bright at these wavelengths. In mid-infrared light, diffraction spikes also appear around stars, but they are fainter and smaller (zoom in to spot them).Français : Cette comparaison côte à côte montre deux observations de la nébuleuse de l’anneau austral dans l'infrarouge proche (gauche) et l'infrarouge moyen (droite), deux images issues du télescope spatial James-Webb de la NASA. Une naine blanche orbite autour de l'étoile centrale en bas à gauche de celle-ci.
Dans l'image obtenue par la Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), la naine blanche est partiellement occultée par une pointe de diffraction. La même étoile apparaît sur l'image issue du Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), mais plus brillante, plus grande et plus rouge. Les deux images semblent très différentes parce que la NIRCam et le MIRI recueillent des ondes lumineuses de fréquences différentes. La NIRCam offre une meilleure résolution, alors que le MIRI permet d'observer plus loin dans l'infrarouge, ce qui révèle de la poussière autour des étoiles. La naine blanche est masquée par d'épaisses couches de poussières, qui la font apparaître plus grande. L'étoile la plus brillante dans les deux images n'a pas encore rejeté ses couches de poussières. Elle orbite à proximité de la naine blanche, plus pâle, ce qui aide à répandre les matériaux éjectés. Pendant des milliers d'années et avant qu'elle ne soit une naine blanche, l'étoile a périodiquement rejeté de la masse – les coquilles de matériaux visibles. Les matériaux stellaires, éparpillés dans toutes les directions comme le ferait un sprinkler rotatif, ont fourni les ingrédients qui ont produit ce paysage asymétrique. Aujourd'hui, la naine blanche chauffe les gaz des régions intérieures – qui sont en bleu à la gauche et à la droite. Les deux étoiles illuminent les régions extérieures, en orange et en bleu respectivement. Dans la région circulaire au centre des deux images apparaît une ceinture irrégulière de matériaux. C'est l'endroit où se touchent les deux « bols » qui constituent la nébuleuse. Cette ceinture est plus facile à trouver dans l'image du MIRI : c'est un cercle de couleur jaunâtre ; il est visible dans l'image de la NIRCam. La lumière qui voyage dans les nuages de poussières oranges dans l'image de la NIRCam, qui ressemblent à des tâches lumineuses, n'apparaît pas dans l'image du MIRI (qui détecte des longueurs d'onde infrarouges plus grandes). Dans l'infrarouge proche, les étoiles ont des pointes de diffraction plus intenses parce qu'elles sont plus brillantes dans ces longueurs d'ondes. Dans l'infrarouge moyen, des pointes de diffraction sont aussi détectées autour des étoiles, mais elles sont plus pâles et plus petites (zoomer pour les voir). |
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