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Planetary nebula NGC 2440 in Puppis
author: NASA/ESA/Novapix
reference: a-nep24-40003
Image Size 300 DPI: 16 * 16 cm
View of the planetary nebula NGC 2440 in Puppis, taken by Hubble Space Telescope on february 6 2007.
The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core. Our Sun will eventually burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion years.
The white dwarf at the center of NGC 2440 is one of the hottest known, with a surface temperature of nearly 200,000 degrees Celsius.
NGC 2440 is about 4,000 light-years from Earth.
The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core. Our Sun will eventually burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion years.
The white dwarf at the center of NGC 2440 is one of the hottest known, with a surface temperature of nearly 200,000 degrees Celsius.
NGC 2440 is about 4,000 light-years from Earth.
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