Butterfly Nebula | Beauty of space with Hubble space telescope

This is a image taken by hubble space telescope. This is bug nebula or butterfly nebula. It Is also called as 6302. It is located in milkyway galaxy about 3800 light years from earth. The principal star started shedding its outer layers from 2200 years. Its extremely hot nebula with 220000 Celsius at the centre.

Hubble telescope is named after Edwin Hubble. Hubble captures detailed images of celestial objects such as planets, stars, and galaxies. Hubble has collected over one million observations. These include detailed images of star birth and death, galaxies billions of light years away, and comet fragments colliding with Jupiter's atmosphere. It is used for astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, chemistry and atomic physics research.

Pic credit NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

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