CW Leo
A runaway star, called CW Leo, plowing through the depths of space and piling up interstellar material before it, can be seen in this ultraviolet image from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
- Date
- 2012-05-16
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"CW Leo" (2012-05-16). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA15417Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 16021.
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