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Hubble Space Telescope reveals NGC 2440

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Uploaded by on Feb 13, 2007

This video shows the star field of NGC 2440, and a colourful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core. Ultraviolet light from the dying star makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the centre. Read more and see more pictures on: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0703.html

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  • Thanks guys that was great 2 see

  • liked that`

  • My favorite NGC (New General Catalog) object! :-)

  • you're

  • now kids....play nice

  • thats an ugly star

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