Image of M76 taken by Hubble. Description is in the post. Image source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic2408b/

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1. AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2024 19:08:45 UTC AkaSci 🛰️

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   To celebrate its 34th anniversary, the Hubble Space Telescope snapped this image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula (aka Messier 76 or M76), located 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Perseus.

   M76 has a two-lobed structure of colorful, mottled, glowing gases expanding into space. Blistering UV radiation from a super-hot dying star (the white dot in the center) is causing the gases to glow. The red color is from nitrogen, and blue is from oxygen.

   NASA, ESA, STScI
   https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-celebrates-34th-anniversary-with-little-dumbbell-nebula
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