Friday, October 3, 2014

apod 1.6

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This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene. What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour! This was once a dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun.

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