The Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 Wall Art SPACE making it an ideal laboratory

making it an ideal laboratory for investigating star formation

But its passive-cooling design has allowed part of its third instrument to continue operating for more than 10 additional years

Other distant galaxies located hundreds of millions of light-years or more away can be seen sprinkled around the edge of the image

Text: European Space Agency (ESA)

The Demo-2 mission was the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program

The Butterfly Nebula NGC 6302 Wall Art SPACE making it an ideal laboratoryHubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light, from near ultraviolet to near infrared, helping researchers better understand the mechanics at work in its technicolor "wings" of gas. The observations highlight a new pattern of near infrared emission from singly ionized iron, which traces an S shape from lower left to upper right. This iron emission likely traces the