The Butterfly Nebula from hubble

imageIt's like a big butterfly on the earth. This Bipolar Planetary Nebula is located 3800 light years away from the Earth, in our galaxy's Milk Way Scorpius. The name of this nebula is NGC 6302. The other names are: Bug Nebula, Butterfly Nebula, Caldwell 69 .. The gas emitted from this nebula is 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit and the speed of this gas is 6 million miles per hour. For the last 2200 years, this nebula has continued to flow from the gas. The central center of this nebula is at the center of the temperature of 4 million kelvin and the surface temperature is 200,000 kelvin, which is known as one of the hottest stars in our galaxy. In 2009, the photo of this nebula was taken by Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). The oxygen, helium, hydrogen, nitrogen and sulfur gas emitted from this nebula

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