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16/01/2023

Deep in the constellation Scorpius, a cosmic butterfly spreads its wings 🦋😍

Meet NGC 6302, an enormous shell of glowing gas better known as the Butterfly Nebula. Located about 4,000 light-years from Earth, the double-winged nebula is a spectacular example of what happens when stars like the sun run out of fuel and die.

Hidden at the point where the two wings meet, a once-mighty star now smolders as a tiny, collapsed white dwarf; the "wings" themselves are the remains of that star's outer layers of gas, which were expelled violently into space thousands of years ago when the star inevitably ran out of nuclear fuel to burn, and died. Today, those wings span more than 3 light-years, or several thousand times wider than the solar system, according to NASA.

Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA

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