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Monday, October 13, 2014

Dying planetary nebula creates incredible insect-like image

Dying planetary nebula creates incredible insect-like image | Daily Mail Online: "It is a stunning example of how beautiful space can be.

NGC 6302, captured here in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is  known as the Bug or Butterfly Nebula.

European Space Agency bosses have revealed this amazing image of the so-called 'butterfly nebula.

It shows the death throes of a star, when great clouds of superheated gas are expelled into space."

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