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.

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.

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.

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.

9 Most Beautiful Images of Nebula shared by NASA Hubble Space Telescope. ... Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302): NGC 6302 lies between 2,500 and 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.