🌫️ Nebula
Butterfly Nebula
Two glowing wings of gas thrown off by a dying star.
- Distance
- 4,000 light-years away
Did you know?
- Its two wings were blasted out in a burst about 2,250 years ago.
- It is also called the Bug Nebula, or NGC 6302.
- It lies in Scorpius, low in the southern sky as seen from the north.
Find it in the sky
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