Butterfly Nebula image captured by Gemini telescope reveals glowing gaseous wings

Butterfly Nebula image captured by Gemini telescope reveals glowing gaseous wings
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The new image from the Gemini South telescope in Chile reveals a cosmic shape so vivid it barely needs a name: the Butterfly Nebula. Against a dark sea of stars, twin lobes of glowing gas fan outward like wings,…

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