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www.chandra.si.edu Instagram.comNicknamed the Garden-Sprinkler Nebula, Henize 3-1475 is located about 18,000 light-years from Earth. A planetary nebula in the making, it's in a short-lived phase where it is referred to as a "protoplanetary" or "preplanetary" nebula.
X-ray (Chandra): NASA, CXC, RIT/J.Kastner et al.;
Optical (Hubble): NASA, STScI, Univ. MD/J.P.Harrington
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