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Oh no you didn't cut off that nebula and create a terrible tangent at the edge of the composition. ...Yep, you did. Oh, Hubble.

Composition aside, <a href="http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/n2440.html" rel="nofollow">NGC 2440</a> is a lovely nebula. Cloudy tendrils seem to reach vainly toward their progenitor but they are destined to be blown away and eventually dissipate into the vacuum of space; such a fleeting vision. Maybe one day the matter shed from this star will find its way into another star, planet or some living being. No one can say for sure.

Red: hst_11090_04_wfpc2_f658n_wf_sci + hst_11090_04_wfpc2_f675w_wf_sci Green: hst_11090_04_wfpc2_f656n_wf_sci + hst_11090_04_wfpc2_f555w_wf_sci Blue: hst_11090_04_wfpc2_f502n_wf_sci + hst_11090_04_wfpc2_f439w_wf_sci

North is NOT up.

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Image title	This image of NGC 2440 shows the colourful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core. Ultraviolet light from the dying star makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the centre.
Credit/Provider	NASA, ESA, and K. Noll (STScI)
Source	ESA/Hubble
Short title	Hubble reveals NGC 2440
Usage terms	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Date and time of data generation	17:00, 13 February 2007
Keywords	NGC 2440
Contact information	http://www.spacetelescope.org/ Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2 Garching bei München, , D-85748 Germany
IIM version	4

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