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History of Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
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Some 5,000 light years (2,900 trillion miles) from Earth, in the constellation Puppis, is the 1.4 light years (more than 8 trillion miles) long Calabash Nebula, referred to as the Rotten Egg Nebula because of its sulfur content which would produce an awful odor if one could smell in space. This image of the nebula captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) depicts violent gas collisions that produced supersonic shock fronts in a dying star.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineHistory of Hubble Space Telescope (HST). NASA/MSFC, 2001-08-24. Public domain. ID: 0300724.
