I share with you my new version of the famous Dumbbell Nebula (Messier 27). This is a planetary nebula visible in the constellation of Vulpecula, located approximately 1,360 light years from Earth. Its made up of a cloud of ionized gases, the result of the death of a giant star which became 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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