Wednesday, August 03, 2022

Pan of The Jewel Bug Nebula | Hubble

Pan of The Jewel Bug Nebula | Hubble

This image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope depicts NGC 7027, or the “Jewel Bug” nebula.

The object had been slowly puffing away its mass in quiet, spherically symmetric or perhaps spiral patterns for centuries—until relatively recently  when it produced a new cloverleaf pattern.

NGC 7027 is located around 3,000 light-years (920 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.

New observations of the object have found unprecedented levels of complexity and rapid changes in the jets and gas bubbles blasting off of the star at the centre of the nebula.


Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and J. Kastner (RIT)

Duration: 20 seconds

Release Date: June 18, 2020


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