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Hubble Space Telescope brings new stars to light

The new Hubble Space Telescope has recently revealed few images of haywire stars. The telescope has used its full range of imaging capabilities to locate and capture these stars and planetary nebulae. The images clearly show 2 new and young planetary nebulae around the space.

The telescope has depicted 2 young nebulae, NGC 6302, dubbed the Butterfly Nebula, and NGC 7027. Both of these planetary nebulae are dustiest among the known planetary nebulae. Both of these nebulae contain unusual masses of gas in it.

The Hubble Space Telescope is known to have depicted these images much before, but not for a long time. This time it has clicked them with the Wide Field Camera 3 instrument using its full wavelength. This telescope reveals in full detail how both the nebulae are falling apart gradually and the changes that are occurring from the past couple of years.

Researchers have detected that at the core or heart of the nebula, there were 2 stars that were continuously orbiting around each other. This is been concluded from the bizarre shape of the nebula. The NGC 6302, also known as the Butterfly Nebula, is exhibiting reddish-orange S-shaped patterns (due to ionised atom emissions) that are clearly seen in the images.

The NGC 7027 resembles a jewel bug, which indicates that it is slowly puffing away its mass in quiet, spherically symmetric pattern for centuries.

These nebulae are said to be rarely watched and being captured by.

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