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Hubble View of a Nitrogen-Rich Nebula
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a planetary nebula named NGC 6153, located about 4,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). The faint blue haze across the frame shows what remains of a star like the sun after it has depleted most of its fuel. When this happens, the outer layers of the star are ejected, and get excited and ionized by the energetic ultraviolet light emitted by the bright hot core of the star, forming the nebula.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineHubble View of a Nitrogen-Rich Nebula. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000699.
