A Beautiful Ghost ⁣👻
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Officially known as IC 63,
the Ghost Nebula is located 550 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen.⁣
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@NASAHubble snapped this image that shows how the brightest stars embedded in nebulae throughout our galaxy pour out a torrent of radiation that eats into vast clouds of hydrogen gas –
the raw material for building new stars.
This etching process sculpts a fantasy landscape where human imagination can see all kinds of shapes and figures.⁣
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Credit:
NASA,
ESA,
and STScI/Acknowledgment:
H.
Arab (University of Strasbourg)⁣
⁣ #NASA #Space #GhostNebula #Universe #Hubble⁣
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Images of broken light /
Which dance before /
me like a million eyes /
They call me on and on across the universe 🌌⁣⁣⁣
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@NASAHubble caught this star exploding,
scattering stellar matter across the universe.
In this zoomed in time-lapse sequence,
spanning nearly a year,
the supernova first appears as a blazing star located 70 million light-years away on a spiral galaxy’s outer edge.
At its peak,
the supernova burst was 5 billion times as bright as our Sun.
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The star sent elements like hydrogen,
helium,
and iron zooming through the cosmos.
These same elements are in all of our bodies and they were forged in the stars.
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Keep shining.⁣⁣
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Credits:
NASA/ESA/J.
DePasquale (STScI),
M.
Kornmesser and M.
Zamani (ESA/Hubble)/A.
Reiss (STScI/JHU)
and the SH0ES team/Digitized Sky Survey⁣⁣
⁣⁣ #Lennon80 #NASA #Galaxy #JohnLennon #Imagine⁣⁣

A Blue Snowball From Across the Universe!⁣
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Caldwell 22,
also cataloged as NGC 7662 and nicknamed Blue Snowball Nebula,
is located about 2,500 light-years from Earth.
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It represents a stage in evolution that stars like our Sun undergo when they run out of fuel.
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Stars are nuclear furnaces that spend most of their lives fusing hydrogen into helium.
Massive stars have fiery fates,
exploding as supernovae,
but medium-mass stars like the Sun swell to become red giants as they exhaust their fuel.⁣
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Credit:
NASA,
ESA,
and A.
Hajian (University of Waterloo)⁣
⁣ #NASA #Space #Hubble #BlueSnowballNebula #Universe #Nebula #Sun #Stars⁣