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A celestial creepy-crawly

A spider-like nebula with 3,000-year-long "legs" made of dust clouds, 5,000 light years away, captured by NASA's Webb Telescope.

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Red Spider Nebula ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. H. Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology) Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured never-before-seen details of the Red Spider...

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Hubble Space Telescope image of the Red Spider Nebula (NGC 6537), a planetary nebula in the constellation Sagittarius. The image reveals the nebula's complex structure, created by colliding winds from a hot, central binary star system. The vibrant colors represent different elements and temperatures within the nebula's gas and dust.

Astronomy Picture from 19/04/2017

The Red Spider Planetary Nebula

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170419.html


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