The Hubble Space Telescope captured new images of familiar planetary nebulae using a different camera for the first time. The result is a stunning glimpse of both NGC 7027 and the Butterfly Nebula, NGC 6302, both of which are in the midst of stellar death. Hubble has viewed these nebulae before but never with this type of imaging tool, and these are two of the most detailed images of their respective nebulae ever captured by the space agencies. Our star, the Sun, is pretty special. It's the reas...
The Hubble Space Telescope captured new images of familiar planetary nebulae using a different camera for the first time. The result is a stunning glimpse of both NGC 7027 and the Butterfly Nebula, NGC 6302, both of which are in the midst of stellar death. Hubble has viewed these nebulae before but never with this type of imaging tool, and these are two of the most detailed images of their respective nebulae ever captured by the space agencies. Our star, the Sun, is pretty special. It's the reas...
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