Death Beckons Three Aging Stars
This trio of ghostly images from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the disembodied remains of dying stars called planetary nebulas. Planetary nebulas are a late stage in a sun-like star life.
- Date
- 2013-10-28
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Death Beckons Three Aging Stars" (2013-10-28). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA17552Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 25078.
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