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Breahtaking: The Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302) lies about 3800 light-years away in Scorpius. Its glowing gas (formerly the star's outer layers) was expelled over 2200 years, forming a butterfly-shaped structure over two light-years wide! Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Kastner (RIT)

Breahtaking: The Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302) lies about 3800 light-years away in Scorpius. 

Its glowing gas (formerly the star's outer layers) was expelled over 2200 years, forming a butterfly-shaped structure over two light-years wide!

Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Kastner (RIT)