posted by Vern
on Wed Sep 9, 2009 09:51 am MDT
At 9 am this morning, NASA/ESA released images taken with equipment installed by US astrononauts during the STS 125 service mission last May. This image is of NGC 6302, sometimes called the 'Bug' or 'Butterfly' nebula in constellation Scorpius. Image taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 instrument.
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