#deepsapce

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Cosmic wings of the Butterfly Nebula by NASA Hubble. ‘This nebula formed after a star like our Sun used up most of its fuel and shed its outer layers of material. Planetary nebulae really have nothing to do with planets! They were misnamed by early astronomers looking through small telescopes when they thought that these objects looked like planets.’ Image credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/RIT/J.Kastner; Optical: NASA/ESA/AURA/STScI

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