Sunday, January 3, 2010

Apod 2.7

This beautiful photo is approximately three thousand light-years away. This photo is of a dyeing star that is producing shells of glowing gas. This image was recovered from the Hubble Space Telescope, and it shaped this photo of a Cat’s Eye Nebula. A Cat’s Eye Nebula is known as one of the most complex planetary nebulas known to man. The bright central object found in this nebula is believed to be a binary star system. These objects presented in this photo appear to be a planet like and round. However, the stars is surrounded by a cocoon of gas blown right off the late stage of stellar evolution. This is an amazing photo, and keeps my eyes captive to the colors and sure size and distance of this object from planet Earth.

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