File:Mira HM Sge Compass Image (2024-018).tiff

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A Hubble Space Telescope image of the symbiotic star Mira HM Sge with compass and scale bar. Located 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta, it consists of a red giant and a white dwarf companion.

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English: A Hubble Space Telescope image of the symbiotic star Mira HM Sge with compass and scale bar. Located 3,400 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta, it consists of a red giant and a white dwarf companion. The stars are too close together to be resolved by Hubble. Material bleeds off the red giant and falls onto the dwarf, making it extremely bright. This system first flared up as a nova in 1975. The red nebulosity is evidence of the stellar wind. The nebula is about one-quarter light-year across. NASA, ESA, Ravi Sankrit (STScI), Steven Goldman (STScI)
Date 10 June 2024, 19:15:00 (upload date)
Source Mira HM Sge Compass Image
Author Science NASA, ESA, Ravi Sankrit (STScI), Steven Goldman (STScI)
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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

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