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Picture Album: A Dying Star Shrouded by a Blanket of Hailstones Forms the Bug Nebula (NGC 6302)

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Hubble Servicing Mission 4 Early Release Observations

Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302

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A Dying Star Shrouded by a Blanket of Hailstones Forms the Bug Nebula (NGC 6302)

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Credit: NASA, ESA and A.Zijlstra (UMIST, Manchester, UK)

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