APOD: 2020 June 30 - Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 from Hubble

Good Tuesday morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price and I must day this does not even look real, but this photo composite taken by the Hubble Space Telescope says otherwise... I've included a short adjunct video that might add some additional interest into this highly unusual nebula shape...

https://youtu.be/9u6CrDcxgLM

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Maj William W. 'Bill' Price thanks for the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is titled "Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 from Hubble." I must say it again no one does it better from above, trust me on this, so exhilarating is the universe.


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Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for June 30, 2020 entitled "Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 from Hubble."
Image: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027 from Hubble - Image Credit - NASA, ESA, Joel Kastner (RIT) et al.; Processing - Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

APOD background
"Explanation: What created this unusual planetary nebula? NGC 7027 is one of the smallest, brightest, and most unusually shaped planetary nebulas known. Given its expansion rate, NGC 7027 first started expanding, as visible from Earth, about 600 years ago. For much of its history, the planetary nebula has been expelling shells, as seen in blue in the featured image. In modern times, though, for reasons unknown, it began ejecting gas and dust (seen in red) in specific directions that created a new pattern that seems to have four corners. These shells and patterns have been mapped in impressive detail by recent images from the Wide Field Camera 3 onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. What lies at the nebula's center is unknown, with one hypothesis holding it to be a close binary star system where one star sheds gas onto an erratic disk orbiting the other star. NGC 7027, about 3,000 light years away, was first discovered in 1878 and can be seen with a standard backyard telescope toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus)."

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