Fact Sheet
Colorful Corpse
A dying star surrounds itself with a colorful cloud of gas in this recently released Hubble Space Telescope image. The object is known as NGC 6369. It is a star in the final stages of life. It is casting its outer layers into space, creating the colorful nebula around it. The nebula will fade from view in a few thousand years, leaving only the star's dense, hot core, called a white dwarf. [NASA/STScI]
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