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Chris Mooney is a 2009-2010 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and the author of three books, The Republican War on Science, Storm World, and Unscientific America. For more information see his bio and events.
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November 8th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
What nebula is that? The Ant nebula?
November 8th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
It’s NGC 6302, a butterfly-shaped nebula just 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation.
November 8th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Outstanding, love it, clever too. Nice job
November 9th, 2009 at 9:39 am
I see! The Butterfly Nebula or Bug Nebula!
November 11th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
The Butterfly Nebula was a star that was once probably 5 times a massive as our sun that is at the end of it’s life. It was taken by the new Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 thanks to the most recent shuttle servicing mission to Hubble. As we see it now, the Butterfly Nebula is over 2 light years across. There is some educational information about it at
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/news/archive/2009/03/. You can see many more like it at
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/capture/stars/