@astrophysica.sci: Another look at the Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302), located 3,800 light-years away in our Milky Way galaxy. The plumes of glowing gas were once the star's outer layers which have been expelled over the course of the last 2,000 years. The butterfly shape stretches for more than two light-years, which is about half the distance from the Sun to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri. Credit: ESA/Hubble, Risinger, Digitized Sky Survey 2, L. Calcada #astrophysics #physics #STEM #fyp #nebula

Astrophysica

Open In TikTok:

Region: US

Sunday 08 November 2026 02:54:16 GMT