Zooming-in to NGC 7027
Description
This video zooms into the planetary nebula NGC 7027.
The object had been slowly puffing away its mass in quiet, spherically symmetric or perhaps spiral patterns for centuries — until relatively recently when it produced a new cloverleaf pattern.
More information and download options: http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic2011d/
Credit:
ESA/Hubble, Risinger, Digitized Sky Survey 2, L. Calcada
Music: Astral Electronic
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