Scientists have used the Hubble telescope to capture images of the Butterfly Nebula, giving a glimpse of how our star will look after death.
The sun will die, eventually. Like any star, the one at the center of our solar system is not meant to live forever. Eventually, it will use up all of the nuclear fuel in its core and explode, becoming a shell of what it once was. Now, Hubble’s various images of the Butterfly Nebula have given us a glimpse of what it could look like after our star finally says goodbye.in around 10 billion years or so, give or take a few million years.
Scientists created this colorized version of the Butterfly Nebula using images captured by Hubble in 2019 and 2020. Image source: Bruce Balick/University of Washington/Joel Kastner/Paula Baez Moraga/Rochester Institute of Technology/Space Telescope Science Institute Officially named NGC 6302, the Butterfly Nebula earned its nickname thanks to the butterfly-like design that its gas clouds create when observing it in space. These wings, which spread outward from a mall collapsed white dwarf, are all that remains of the old star. The gas of the wings that we see in the Butterfly Nebula images is the result of the material from the star being expelled outward thousands of years ago.
The nebula is a beautiful sight, though one that you can’t help but see in our future in some way. That’s because our star, the Sun, is expected to end in a similar fate as the Butterfly Nebula at some point down the line. When that happens, many believe that the Sun’s explosion will destroy Earth and several other planets – completely changing how our solar system looks in the process.
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