NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured striking new images of the "Bare Skull Nebula," a ghostly cloud of gas and dust orbiting a dying star. The nebula, PMR 1, eerily resembles a brain inside a transparent skull, with a dark stripe down the center dividing it into two hemispheres. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured striking new images of the "Bare Skull Nebula," a ghostly cloud of gas and dust orbiting a dying star. The nebula, PMR 1, eerily resembles a brain inside a transparent skull, with a dark stripe down the center dividing it into two hemispheres. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured striking new images of the "Bare Skull Nebula," a ghostly cloud of gas and dust orbiting a dying star. The nebula, PMR 1, eerily resembles a brain inside a transparent skull, with a dark stripe down the center dividing it into two hemispheres. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)