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To celebrate its 34th anniversary, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped this image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula (aka Messier 76 or M76), located 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Perseus.
M76 has a two-lobed structure of colorful, mottled, glowing gases expanding into space. Blistering UV radiation from a super-hot dying star (the white dot in the center) is causing the gases to glow. The red color is from nitrogen, and blue is from oxygen.
NASA, ESA, STScI
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-celebrates-34th-anniversary-with-little-dumbbell-nebula
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M76 has a two-lobed structure of colorful, mottled, glowing gases expanding into space. Blistering UV radiation from a super-hot dying star (the white dot in the center) is causing the gases to glow. The red color is from nitrogen, and blue is from oxygen.
NASA, ESA, STScI
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-celebrates-34th-anniversary-with-little-dumbbell-nebula
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