Celestial butterfly

The spectacular butterfly-like image is of a nebula, a cloud of stellar dust and gas, created by the last throes of a dying star that once was about five times the mass of the Sun.I could just get lost in that image if I stared at it for too long. I keep wondering if it will suck me in to a vortex in the middle.
The new images were posted on NASA's Hubble website yesterday. This image is used under the terms of NASA's fair-use policy.
1 Comments:
What a beauty. As an avid follower of Astronomy Picture of the Day, I've become a bit desensitised to space vistas but this is really unique.
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