Butterfly Nebula Size:18x18

Butterfly Nebula Size:18x18Gas released by a dying star races across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour. This Butterfly Nebula is also known as NGC 6302 or the Bug Nebula which rests in the constellation Scorpius. The burst of energy released from a dying star pulls and energizes gas along with it, forming a delicate shape like a butterfly or an hourglass. Its central star, a recently discovered white dwarf, is one of the hottest stars in the galaxy, with a surface

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000 stars within the region of this nebula and there is evidence that massive stars have self-destructed in supernova explosions that took place here

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Object Name: M101 (NGC 5457

to the yellowish central core which serves as the home for older stars

UGC 5887 or Silverado Galaxy

000 stars is from a small region inside the Omega Centauri globular cluster

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