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NGC 5307 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Centaurus, about 8000 light years away. In the center of the nebula, which has a diameter of approximately 0.6 light years, a white dwarf is located which illuminates the gas from within.

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English: NGC 5307 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Centaurus, about 8000 light years away. In the center of the nebula, which has a diameter of approximately 0.6 light years, a white dwarf is located which illuminates the gas from within.The nebula itself has a spiral structure - as shown in the illustration - which may have been caused by the white star wobbling as it expelled jets of gas in different directions. NGC 5307 also shows a “point-symmetric” structure, what means that almost every blob has a counterpart on the opposite side of the central star.
Date 17 December 1997 (upload date)
Source NGC 5307 illustration
Author NASA & ESA

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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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