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Gazing into this composite image of the Cat's Eye nebula from a Hubble view with X-ray light captured by Chandra, humanity sees the fate of our sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution ... in about 5 billion years https://t.co/hCxcdhVAQz
Flanked by satellite galaxies of the Milky Way a volcanic peak rises from this rugged horizon. The southern night skyscape looks toward the south over Laguna Lejia and the altiplano of the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile https://t.co/kJTU3yCX07
Strange shapes and textures can be found in neighborhood of the Cone Nebula. The unusual shapes originate from fine interstellar dust reacting in complex ways with the energetic light and hot gas being expelled by the young stars https://t.co/uDC0U4YJlo
In this night skyscape the Hunter's stars rise in the northern hemisphere's winter sky on December 30, 2019, tangled in bare trees near Newnan, Georgia, USA. In the photo, the fainting of Betelgeuse is visible https://t.co/UMudGHJkOD
The Rosette Nebula is not the only cosmic cloud of gas and dust to evoke the imagery of flowers but it is the most famous. At the edge of a large molecular cloud in Monoceros some 5,000 ly away, the petals of this cosmic rose are actually a stellar nursery https://t.co/jflsHrq25o
Pictured here, Saturn's thin ring plane appears edge on in blue, bands and clouds in Saturn's upper atmosphere appear in gold. Details of Saturn's rings can be seen in the high dark shadows across the top of this image, taken by @CassiniSaturn back in 2005 https://t.co/F9k9U1xyOL
This astronomical sky spanning view is a mosaic from the Pan-STARRS observatory. The images were recorded with its 1.8 meter telescope at the summit of Haleakala on planet Earth's island of Maui https://t.co/fJQ0TsSGdG
What has this supernova left behind? As little as 2,000 years ago, light from a massive stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) first reached planet Earth. What remains is one of the largest supernova remnants in the LMC: N63A https://t.co/wxi16TiFvX
Is this what will become of our Sun? Quite possibly. The 27th object on Messier's list, now known as M27 or the Dumbbell Nebula, is a planetary nebula, the type of nebula our Sun will produce when nuclear fusion stops in its core https://t.co/ybxmcBXRSd
Do you see the bat? It haunts this cosmic close-up of the eastern Veil Nebula. The Veil Nebula itself is a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star https://t.co/cetUtH45mv