New nebula images from the refurbished Hubble.

September 9, 2009
by Nicholas Knisely
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Wow! Check out this picture of the Butterfly Nebula (M 2-9):

Butterfly-emerges-from-New-Hubble-images.

From here. (Click on the picture for a better view.)

More about the Butterfly Nebula here.

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2 Comments

  1. Anne Wolf says

    My friends say facebook is a time sink – I think the better one is GalaxyZoo. Been there?

  2. Nicholas Knisely says

    Never been to GalaxyZoo. Neat site – a different sort of time sink than facebook, but a constructive one so maybe one doesn’t end up regretting the time spent there.

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