NASA even made the Butterfly Nebula one of the first objects observed by Hubble. The wings are about three light-years across, and the nebula sits 3,500 light-years away from Earth.

The nebula is a beautiful sight, though one that you can’t help but see in our future in some way. That’s because our star, the Sun, is expected to end in a similar fate as the Butterfly ...

To get to the bottom of the weirdness, Balick and his colleagues compared Hubble Space Telescope images of the Butterfly Nebula from 2009 with more recent images captured in 2020.

A color rendition of NGC 6302, the Butterfly Nebula, created from black-and-white exposures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2019 and 2020.

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on a grand scientific adventure to study the cosmos on April 24, 1990. ... Planetary nebula NGC 2899, a space butterfly.

A Hubble image of the Butterfly Nebula from 2020, just three years before the telescope's investigation of its central white dwarf. Credit: NASA, ESA, Joel Kastner (RIT) 9.

This week, the famed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turns 35 years-young. Launched on April 24 1990, ... A Hubble image of NGC 6302, aka the "Butterfly Nebula," from June 2020.

Space news and reference site. A color rendition of NGC 6302, the Butterfly Nebula, created from black-and-white exposures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2019 and 2020.

Butterfly emerges from stellar demise in planetary nebula: The Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), a new camera aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, snapped this image of the planetary nebula ...

In the 35 years since the Hubble Space Telescope flew to space, it has taken pictures of comets, merging galaxies, planets, supernova remnants, and more.. The first-of-its-kind telescope — a ...

Every Hubble anniversary feels like a triumph for the elderly space telescope. It may have a few more anniversaries left in it. NASA hopes it will continue operations into the 2030s. Long live Hubble.