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Cool, calming vibes are coming your way, thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope!
This is a close-up of the Helix Nebula. What look like raindrops are filaments embedded along a portion of the inner rim of the nebula’s red and blue gas ring.
Thousands of comet-like filaments likely formed when hot stellar winds and radiation plowed into shells of gas and dust.
#SoCool #summer #vibing #Hubble #PlanetaryNebula #filaments #SpaceOut
Credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO).
ALT-TEXT: Bright light blue covers most of the image. What appear to be raindrops start toward the top of the image, shown in light orange-pink, and trail down the scene, which is a clip of a larger image of the Helix Nebula.
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