Zoom in! 🦋 We saw the Butterfly Nebula for the first time in 2009 with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This year, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope got an up-close view. Webb’s infrared data, supplemented by radio data from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) specifically looks at the central region of the nebula, between the “wings,” and the complex structure of the gas and dust that surrounds it. The Butterfly Nebula is unique because it’s a planetary nebula, but doesn’t look h

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