Blue Snowball Nebula, Brandon Pimenta

Blue Snowball Nebula

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NGC 7662 is a planetary nebula in Andromeda. It has FLIER's all along the edges that appear to burn like a flame, rather than of the other PNs in the FLIER family that have the FLIER's ejected along the poles it seems. It's a very interesting PN that spans about 1 light year.

Red: hst_08390_11_wfpc2_f658n_pc_sci.fits

Green: hst_08390_11_wfpc2_f555w_pc_sci.fits

Blue: hst_08390_11_wfpc2_f502n_pc_sci.fits

Data from December 12, 2000 obtained from Hubble Legacy Archive.

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Blue Snowball Nebula, Brandon Pimenta