esahubble_opo9738c December 17th, 1997
Credit: Howard Bond ( Space Telescope Science Institute), Robin Ciardullo (Pennsylvania State University) and NASA/ESA
IC 3568 lies in the constellation Camelopardalis at a distance of about 9, 000 light-years, and has a diameter of about 0.4 light-years (or about 800 times the diameter of our solar system). It is an example of a round planetary nebula. Note the bright inner shell and fainter, smooth, circular outer envelope.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9738c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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