30K views · 1.9K reactions | NGC 6302 es una nebulosa planetaria bipolar en la constelación de Scorpius, el escorpión, también conocida como nebulosa del Insecto o nebulosa de la Mariposa. Al estar incluida en el Nuevo Catálogo General, este objeto es conocido al menos desde 1888. El primer estudio conocido de NGC 6302 data de 1907 y fue llevado a cabo por Edward Emerson Barnard, quien dibujó y describió esta nebulosa. | A S T R O N O M Y W E B | Facebook

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Journey through space to the Butterfly Nebula, also called NGC 6302. Located about 3400 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius, it is one of the best-studied planetary nebulae in our galaxy. The first image that is revealed in this video highlights the bipolar nature of the Butterfly Nebula in optical and near-infrared light captured by Hubble Space Telescope . Then, the new Webb image is overlayed on the centre of the Butterfly Nebula and the viewer is shown a close-up view of this part

Along came a spider… 🕷️ The Red Spider Nebula (NGC 6537) is a planetary nebula, a structure which forms when red giants shed their outer layers into space, exposing their white-hot cores. This phase lasts only a few tens of thousands of years. The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s new view of the Red Spider Nebula reveals for the first time the full extent of the nebula’s outstretched lobes, which form the ‘legs’ of the spider – and which each extend about 3 light-years! #WebbSeesFarthe