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Sunday, 17 September 2017
The Egg Nebula
The Egg Nebula
This image of the Egg Nebula, also known as CRL2688 and located roughly 3, 000 light-years from us, was taken in red light with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.
This image sheds new light on the poorly understood ejection of stellar matter which accompanies the slow death of Sun-like stars.
Image Credit: Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger (JPL), the WFPC2 science team, and NASA/ESA
Explanation from: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9603a/
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