Planetary Nebula Ngc 6153
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Planetary Nebula Ngc 6153
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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows a planetary nebula named NGC 6153, located about 4000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion). The faint blue haze across the frame shows what remains of a star like our Sun after it has depleted most of its fuel. When this happens, the outer layers of the star are ejected, and get excited and ionised by the energetic ultraviolet light emitted by the bright hot core of the star, forming the nebula. NGC 6153 is a planetary nebula that is elliptical in shape, with an extremely rich network of loops and filaments. Measurements show that NGC 6153 contains large amounts of neon, argon, oxygen, carbon and chlorine -- up to three times more than can be found in the Solar System. The nebula contains five times more nitrogen than our Sun. Although it may be that the star developed higher levels of these elements as it grew and evolved, it is more likely that the star originally formed from a cloud of material that already contained lots more of these elements.
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March 27th, 2017
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