Journey to The Butterfly Nebula | Hubble/Webb/ALMA Views

Journey to The Butterfly Nebula | Hubble/Webb/ALMA Views

This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to the Butterfly Nebula, also called NGC 6302. The Butterfly Nebula, located about 3400 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, is one of the best-studied planetary nebulae in our galaxy.

The first image that is revealed in this video highlights the bipolar nature of the Butterfly Nebula in optical and near-infrared light captured by the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. Then, the new Webb image is overlayed on the center of the Butterfly Nebula and the viewer is shown a close-up view of this part of the object, providing an unprecedented view of its complex structure. The Webb data are supplemented with data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a powerful network of radio dishes.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Matsuura, J. Kastner, K. Noll, ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), N. Hirano, J. Kastner, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/R. Gendler, A. Hornstrup and J.-E. Ovaldsen, Digitized Sky Survey 2, KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Adam Block
Duration: 1 minute, 30 seconds
Release Date: Aug. 27, 2025

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