Behold: NGC 6302, also known as the ‘bug’ or ‘butterfly nebula’ – a vast planetary dust cloud with a dying central star 4,000 light years from Earth in the Scorpion Constellation. This enhancement is based on an especially sharp image recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2009. to wit:
Cutting across a bright cavity of ionized gas, the dust torus surrounding the central star is near the center of this view, almost edge-on to the line-of-sight. Molecular hydrogen has been detected in the hot star’s dusty cosmic shroud.
(Pic: Robert Eder)
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I bet the coffee there is terrible.
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4,000 light years from Earth in the Scorpion Constellation.