NICMOS Peers Into Heart of Dying Star

NICMOS Peers Into Heart of Dying Star
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The Egg Nebula, also known as CRL 2688, is shown as it appears in visible light with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2(WFPC2).

Credit:

Rodger Thompson, Marcia Rieke, Glenn Schneider, Dean Hines (Universityof Arizona); Raghvendra Sahai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); NICMOS Instrument Definition Team; and NASA/ESA

About the Image

NASA press release
Id:opo9711b
Type:Observation
Release date:12 May 1997, 17:00
Size:500 x 500 px

About the Object

Name:Egg Nebula
Type:• Milky Way : Nebula
• Nebulae Images/Videos
Distance:1400 light years

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