Planetary Nebula M2-9 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Minkowski 2-9 , abbreviated M2-9 , (and also known as Minkowski's Butterfly , the Wings of a Butterfly Nebula or just Butterfly Nebula , and Twin Jet Nebula ) is a planetary nebula that was...
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The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), a new camera aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, snapped this image of the planetary nebula, catalogued as NGC 6302, but more popularly called the Bug Nebula or the Butterfly Nebula.
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the "butterfly wing"- shaped nebula, NGC 2346. The nebula is about 2,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Monoceros. It represents the spectacular "last gasp" of a binary star system at the nebula's center.
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Take the image on the left of planetary nebula NGC 6302, also known as the Bug Nebula or the Butterfly Nebula. ... Butterfly Nebula is more than 2 light-years across;
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it lies 2,100 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus and was discovered by Rudolph Minkowski in 1947. Many of the unusual features of the Butterfly can be understood in terms of the central star, which is a close, ... other designations Minkowski's Butterfly, Twin Jet Nebula, PNG 010.8+18.0, PK 010+18.2...
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The expended gas frequently forms an impressive display called a planetary nebula that fades gradually over thousand of years. M2-9, a butterfly planetary nebula 2100 light-years away shown in representative colors, ... M2-9: Wings of a Butterfly Nebula ; Credit: B. Balick (U. Washington) et al., WFPC2, HST, NASA...
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Hubble Sees Supersonic Exhaust from Nebula; M2-9 is a striking example of a "butterfly" or a bipolar planetary nebula. Another more revealing name might be the "Twin Jet Nebula." If the nebula is sliced across the star, each side of it appears much like a pair of exhausts from jet engines.
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; When a society loses its memory, it descends inevitably into dementia. Mark Steyn; When media organs fail to fulfill their basic responsibilities, they degenerate quickly into democracy's undertaker. Caroline Glick; ... The Butterfly Nebula from Upgraded Hubble ; Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team;
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View Butterfly Nebula image in CNET News' 'Photos: Hubble's newest visions of space' slideshow - CNET News ... This image, taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3, shows the Butterfly Nebula (or Bug Nebula, cataloged as NGC 6302), at the center of which is a dying star that once had five times the mass of Earth's sun.
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