The Hourglass Nebula Wall Art Size:LARGE (24 x 24) Perley and W

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The rock has been informally named the "harbour seal"

2-metre image

This gently glowing area of sky is actually a hot bubble of hydrogen gas — named Sh 2-305 — that has been bombarded by intense radiation from nearby stars

The Hourglass Nebula Wall Art Size:LARGE (24 x 24) Perley and WThis is an image of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light years away, taken with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This Hubble image reveals the true shape of MyCn18 to be an hourglass with an intricate pattern of 'etchings' in its walls. This picture has been composed from three separate images taken in the light of ionized nitrogen (represented by red), hydrogen (green), and