Saturn Nebula, emerges from the darkness like a series of oddly-shaped bubbles
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0.000 HBDSaturn Nebula, emerges from the darkness like a series of oddly-shaped bubbles
<html> <p><img src="https://cdn.eso.org/images/newsfeature/eso1731a.jpg" width="733" height="300"/></p> <p> It's lit up in glorious pinks and blues. This colourful image was captured by the powerful MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), as part of a study which mapped the dust inside a planetary nebula for the first time. The map — which reveals a wealth of intricate structures in the dust, including shells, a halo and a curious wave-like feature — will help astronomers understand how planetary nebulae develop their strange shapes and symmetries.</p> </html>