Portal:Astronomy/Picture/Week 48 2006

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The Egg Nebula is a planetary nebula, forming as the outer layers are gently expelled from a dying red giant star which has exhausted all its nuclear fuel. The 'searchlight' effect is caused by light emerging from the thinnest parts of a thick cloud of dust surrounding the star.

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