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This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the beauty of the moth-like planetary nebula NGC 2899.
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This object has a diagonal, bipolar, cylindrical outflow of gas.
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This is propelled by radiation and stellar winds from a nearly 40,000-degree-Fahrenheit white dwarf at the center.
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There may be two companion stars that are interacting and sculpting the nebula, which is pinched in the middle by a fragmented ring or torus- looking like a half-eaten donut.
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It has a forest of gaseous “pillars” that point back to the source of radiation and stellar winds.
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The colours are from glowing hydrogen and oxygen. The nebula lies approximately 4,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Vela.
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