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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,…

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,…