Ghost of Jupiter Nebula
This ghostly image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the disembodied
remains of a dying star, called a planetary nebula. Planetary nebulas are a late
stage in a sun-like star's life, when its outer layers have sloughed off and are
lit up by ultraviolet light from the central star. The Ghost of Jupiter,
also known as NGC 3242, is located roughly 1,400 light-years away in the
constellation Hydra. Spitzer's infrared view shows off the cooler outer halo of
the dying star, colored here in red. Also evident are concentric rings around
the object, the result of material being periodically tossed out in the star's
final death throes.
In this image, infrared light at wavelengths of 3.6 microns is rendered in
blue, 4.5 microns in green, and 8.0 microns in red.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer Space
Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science
operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Data are archived at the Infrared Science
Archive housed at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech.
Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian
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Guillermo Gonzalo Sánchez Achutegui
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