The ghost of a dying star

5 agosto 2015

This extraordinary bubble, glowing like the ghost of a star in the haunting darkness of space, may appear supernatural and mysterious, but it is a familiar astronomical object: a planetary nebula, the remnants of a dying star. This is the best view of the little-known object ESO 378-1 yet obtained and was captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope in northern Chile.img src=»http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sciencedaily/~4/fGL39QBSYWg» height=»1″ width=»1″ alt=»»/
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