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NICMOS Peers Into Heart of Dying Star


Depicts: CRL 2688, The Egg Nebula
Copyright: Rodger Thompson, Marcia Rieke, Glenn Schneider, Dean Hines (Universityof Arizona); Raghvendra Sahai (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); NICMOS Instrument Definition Team; and NASA

The Egg Nebula, also known as CRL 2688, is shown as it appears in visible light with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2).
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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