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> Planetary nebula NGC 6302 in Scorpius

Planetary nebula NGC 6302 in Scorpius

author: ESA/NASA/Novapix

reference: a-nep63-02002

Image Size 300 DPI: 10 * 12 cm

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.

Keywords for this photo:

ASTRONOMY - DYING STAR - EVOLUTION - HST - HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE - NEBULA - NGC 6302 - PLANETARY NEBULA - SCORPIUS - STAR - TEMPERATURE -