HUBBLE ATLAS

Nebulae

Zooming-in to NGC 7027

June 18, 2020 · ESA/Hubble

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This video zooms into the planetary nebula NGC 7027.

The object had been slowly puffing away its mass in quiet, spherically symmetric or perhaps spiral patterns for centuries — until relatively recently when it produced a new cloverleaf pattern.