Thursday, February 15, 2007

Death of a Sunlike Star


National Geographic News Reports:
February 14, 2007—Despite losing one of its most popular cameras last month, the Hubble Space Telescope is still proving its worth, capturing a new round of awe-inspiring images with its remaining camera (see related images of Hubble's top discoveries).

On Tuesday NASA released this new shot of a dying star—a white dwarf shown as a bright dot near the center of nebula NGC 2440—that was once similar to our sun.

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