Planetary nebula NGC 6302 in Scorpius

by: ESA/NASA/Novapix
Reference: a-nep63-02002
Date: 2006-08-31

The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest planetary nebulae known. At its centre lies a superhot, dying star of at least 250,000 degrees C, smothered in a blanket of hailstones.

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