A stunning new Hubble image reveals the most detailed look yet at the Egg Nebula, the youngest and closest pre-planetary nebula to Earth.
The stunning image captures a star's dying moments wrapped in dust, light, and a cosmic conundrum still waiting to be solved.
The image Hubble captured was of the Egg Nebula, in the constellation Cygnus, about 1,000 light-years away, according to NASA.
The Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a remarkable new view of the Egg Nebula, the closest known pre-planetary nebula to Earth. The image captures a Sun-like star casting off its outer layers, ...
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The Egg Nebula, located around 1,000 light years away, is home to a dying star entering last phase of its life.
New Hubble images of the Egg Nebula in the constellation Cygnus brings us the clearest look at the first, youngest, and ...
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A way of estimating more accurate distances to the thousands of so-called planetary nebulae dispersed across our galaxy has been announced. The announcement was made by a team of three astronomers ...