Dumbbell Nebula

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August 23, 2011 at 5:01 pm

Tom Howard

Crawley

Meade 127 refractor mounted on an EQ6. Nikon DSLR.

M27, the Dumbell Nebula. July 2011.

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Observations of the Stingray Nebula by the Hubble Space Telescope. Left shows the object as it appeared in 1996. Right shows the object in 2016. Credit: NASA, ESA, B. Balick (University of Washington), M. Guerrero (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía), and G. Ramos-Larios (Universidad de Guadalajara)

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