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This nebula’s weather forecast? 200,000 degrees Celsius! 🔥

That’s the surface temperature of the dying star at the center of the nebula NGC 2440.

It’s shedding outer layers of material to create the complex structure seen in this #HubbleClassic image: https://go.nasa.gov/3HcVbzo
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