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Ghostly Specter Haunts the ‘Coldest Place in the Universe’
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The Boomerang nebula, called the "coldest place in the universe," reveals its true shape to the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope. The background blue structure, as seen in visible light by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows a classic double-lobe shape with a very narrow central region. ALMA’s resolution and ability to see the cold gas molecules reveals the nebula’s more elongated shape, as seen in red.
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Credit lineGhostly Specter Haunts the ‘Coldest Place in the Universe’. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e001361.
