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Death Throes
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ J. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Comet collisions may be kicking up dust in the Helix Nebula in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Piercing Eye
Credit: NASA and ESA
A dramatic, piercing eye gazes back at us from the sky in this image of NGC 3918 from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Starship contrail
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A delicate ribbon of gas floats through this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Is it a contrail left by a starship barreling through the area? Actually, this ribbon of gas is the thin edge of the supernova remnant SN 1006 in our galaxy that exploded more than 1,000 years ago.
Chaotic Butterfly
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Chaos reigns in the center of this butterfly-shaped nebula in the constellation Puppis. NGC 2440 is a planÂeÂtary nebÂula and is the remains of a star like our Sun. The complex structure within the center of this nebula suggest to astronomers that the star has ejected material periodically in various directions.
Starfish
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Six lobes of gas and dust outline the legs of a starfish in this image of planetary nebula He 2–47. The nebula puffed off material at least three times at the end of its life, firing off jets of gas in opposite directions.
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