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Telescope in Chile captures stunning new picture of a cosmic butterfly
The image highlights glowing gas from a white dwarf in NGC 6302, selected by Chilean schoolchildren to mark 25 years of the International Gemini Observatory operations.
- On Wednesday, the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab released a new astronomical image, which The Associated Press covered with details about the Butterfly Nebula.
- Snapped last month by the Gemini South telescope in Chile, the image shows NGC 6302, a billowing planetary nebula that resembles a cosmic butterfly.
- Schoolchildren in Chile chose the Butterfly Nebula as the target for the International Gemini Observatory's anniversary celebration.
- At the nebula's heart, a white dwarf star cast aside its outer layers, creating the butterflylike wings from expelled gas heated to 450,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- The twin Gemini telescopes operate as Gemini North and Gemini South to scan the entire sky from both hemispheres, supporting broad surveys and outreach.
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