I share with you my version of the famous Dumbbell Nebula (Messier 27). This is a planetary nebula visible in the constellation Vulpecula, located about 1,360 light-years from the Earth and made up of a cloud of ionized gases, the result of the death of a giant star that has become a white dwarf, with a mass equal to half that of the Sun but much smaller radius (about 5% of our star).

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