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The shimmering colors visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, released 8/24/15, shows off the remarkable complexity of the PN M2-9 Twin Jet Nebula which is also known as Minkowski's Butterfly, the Wings of a Butterfly Nebula or simply Butterfly Nebula. The luminous nebula is about 2,100 light-years away from Earth. Unlike ordinary planetary nebulae which has one star at their center, this is a bipolar nebula which has two stars from a binary star system. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)

Science Images of the Month – August 2015

August 31, 2015

Scientists Find Evidence of Possible Lost Continent

February 26, 2013

Scientists believe they’ve uncovered evidence of a long-lost continent in sand found on an island off the east coast of Africa. The possible proof was found in traces of an ancient mineral believed to be between 660 million and 1.97 billion years, gathered from the beaches of Mauritius. It could provide evidence of a long […]

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