esahubble_heic0703a February 13th, 2007
Credit: NASA, ESA, and K. Noll (STScI)
This image of NGC 2440 shows the colourful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core. Ultraviolet light from the dying star makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the centre.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0703a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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