This new JWST pic of the nearby bright star Vega — which you can see up in the sky now!

[badastro@mastodon.social]

This new JWST pic of the nearby bright star Vega — which you can see up in the sky now! — is incredible. It's so smoooooooooth! But that's not the star, it's a disk of dusty debris around it.

Should've sent a poet.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/an-incredibly-smooth-image-of-debris-around-the-nearby-star-vega