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April 24, 2024, unknown: Handout - In celebration of the 34th anniversary of the launch of NASAâ??s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers took a snapshot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 76, or M76, located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. The name â??Little Dumbbellâ?? comes from its shape that is a two-lobed structure of colorful, mottled, glowing gases resembling a balloon thatâ??s been pinched around a middle waist. Like an inflating balloon, the lobes are expanding into space from a dying star seen as a white dot in the center. Blistering ultraviolet radiation from the super-hot star is causing the gases to glow. The red color is from nitrogen, and blue is from oxygen. (Credit Image: © Abaca/Zuma Press/Fotoarena)
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