A Rare Gourd
via nasa.gov
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Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Here, we can see the star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, […]