Hourglass Nebula
This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass shape with an intricate pattern of "etchings" in its walls. A planetary nebula is the glowing relic of a dying, Sun-like star.
Image Credit: Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger (JPL), the WFPC2 science team, and NASA
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