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 center of the nebula.
Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and J. Kastner (RIT)
Release Date: June 18, 2020
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