It looks like our Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a peaceful, cosmic butterfly unfurling its celestial wings, but the truth is vastly more violent. In the Butterfly Nebula, layers of gas are being ejected from a dying star. Medium-mass stars grow unstable as they run out of fuel, which leads them to blast tons of material out into space at speeds of over a million miles per hour!
Streams of intense ultraviolet radiation cause the cast-off material to glow, but eventually the nebula will fade and leave behind only a small stellar corpse called a white dwarf. Our middle-aged Sun can expect a similar fate once it runs out of fuel in about six billion years.
Planetary nebulas like this one aren’t actually related to planets; the term was coined by astronomer William Herschel, who actually discovered the Butterfly Nebula in 1826. Through his small telescope, planetary nebulas looked like glowing, planet-like orbs. While stars that generate planetary nebulas may have once had planets orbiting them, scientists expect that the fiery death throes these stars undergo will ultimately leave any planets in their vicinity completely uninhabitable.
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This is a great idea for those wanting to create a unique home decor in a space. A tapestry hanging from your ceiling can add a wonderful scenic feature to your room, giving some love to the most forgotten element of your home⦠the ceilings! So why not hang a special ceiling tapestry for that?
We originally bought this to hang in our bedroom but after receiving it we decided to hang it in our βgaming roomβ. Looks great, feels great. You can tell is good quality, the print is nice & it was a great size. Now we gotta buy another one for the bedroom !
Omg i need the sunflowers one
it looks so good i bought the 150 x 150 and itβs the perfect size the product arrives on 17 days i am from Australia. i give my five stars feedback πΈπ
THESE ARE SO CUTE! NEED
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the tapestry. It looks exactly like in the picture maybe even better. I can recommend it . Iβm satisfied with everything.
Want.
Omg i need one of these!
These are really beautiful ~ππ
the star one πππ these are so aesthetic and pretty
I love so many of these! π
i really want this.
I love the star one, the lost in the forest and the sunflower ones! I need them!πππ
I just need to send these links to people just before my birthday
