Saturday, February 27, 2016

Instagram favs - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most wonderful things! This image shows a majestic view of a planetary nebula, the glowing remains of a dying, Sun-like star. This stellar relic, first spied by William Herschel in 1787, is nicknamed the "Eskimo" Nebula because, when viewed through ground-based telescopes, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur parka. In this Hubble telescope image, the "parka" is really a disk of material embellished with a ring of comet-shaped objects, with their tails streaming away from the central, dying star. Happy space Saturday everybody! Credit: NASA #NASA #spacesaturday #Hubble #space #telescope #eskimo


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