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Hubble Finds an Hourglass Nebula around a Dying Star

Hubble Finds an Hourglass Nebula around a Dying Star
Date taken Tue Jan 16 1996 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Hubble Space Telescope Metadata JSON

Behind the image

This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape with an intricate pattern of etchings in its walls. A planetary nebula is the glowing relic of a dying, Sun-like star.