June 2005 - The Bug Nebula

The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. At its centre lies a superhot, dying star smothered in a blanket of hailstones.

Credit:
ESA/NASA and Albert Zijlstra

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