Hubble Captures The Butterfly Nebula
This slow pan of the Butterfly Nebula captures the detail available in the Hubble image of the planetary nebula, located 3,800 light-years away from Earth. The nebula's gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles per hour.
Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and G. Bacon of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: December 29, 2011
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