Panning across Planetary Nebula CVMP 1 in Circinus | NOIRLab

Panning across Planetary Nebula CVMP 1 in Circinus | NOIRLab

A twenty-second video pan out from the core of the planetary nebula CVMP 1. The international Gemini Observatory composite color image of the planetary nebula CVMP 1 was captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Gemini South Telescope on Cerro Pachón in Chile. CVMP 1 formed as the result of a massive star throwing off its outer layers at the end of its life.

Credit: International Gemini Observatory/National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)

Duration: 25 seconds

Release Date: June 26, 2023

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