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Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 21:04:59 JST Kelly Lepo

Happy Birthday #Hubble! It was launched #OTD April 24, 1990 on the Space Shuttle Discovery.
This year's anniversary image is of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, or M76.
M76 is a planetary nebula, a glowing cloud of gas ejected by a sun-like star at the end of its lifetime. The central bar structure is actually a ring seen edge-on. This was likely sculpted by a binary companion star. Two lobes extend from the bar to the left and right of the ring.
More: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-013
#Space #Astronomy
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1. The black background of space is scattered with gold-colored stars, some with four-point spikes. At the center, and taking up most of the image, is a nebula appearing as two translucent orbs attached by a white band. The orbs shine with blue, red, and orange cloud-like material, with some tendrils of fading colors floating away into space from the edges of both orbs, like loops of smoke. Where the two orbs are bonded, the red, blue, and orange colors are blocked by a thick semi-transparent white vertical structure.
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