April 30, 2004
Space Butterfly
This is just amazingly beautiful. The Hubble telescope has picked up an image of a butterfly-like nebula that is just tremendous.
Posted by elkaim at April 30, 2004 3:29 PMIts latest reveals unprecedented detail in the Bug Nebula, a huge mass of gas and dust which hides a hot, dying star.
The Bug Nebula, or NGC 6302, is about 4,000 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Scorpius.
Stars like our Sun shed their outer layers when they get old and in this case, the ejected material appears to have gone in two distinct directions.