esahubble_opo9811g March 19th, 1998
Credit: Sun Kwok and Kate Su (University of Calgary), Bruce Hrivnak (Valparaiso University), and NASA/ESA
The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2has captured images of the birth of two planetary nebulae as they emerge from wrappings of gas and dust, like butterflies breaking out of their cocoons.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9811g/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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