Wednesday, February 28, 2007

 

A Beautiful Planetary Nebula

A planetary nebula (I didn't catch its number) which looks remarkably like the blue green eye of the devil. I believe this is false color. When a star collapses and quits its thermonuclear shining, the gas expands out to some portion of the solar system and sometimes looks cool like this one. The other type of nebula is a gas cloud which was not a former star. This has to be from the Hubble Telescope.

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