Friday 11 April 2014

Helix Nebula Room Graphics

Here's a great wall decal featuring a beautiful image from deep space


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"The Helix is a planetary nebula, the glowing gaseous envelope expelled by a dying, sun-like star. The Helix resembles a simple doughnut as seen from Earth. But looks can be deceiving. New evidence suggests that the Helix consists of two gaseous disks nearly perpendicular to each other."

(qtd. from HubbleSite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2004-32)

Credit: NASA, ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University), M. Meixner and P. McCullough (STScI)

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