Kelly Lepo on Nostr: For #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday I give you M97, the Owl Nebula, from the 0.9-meter ...

For #SuperbOwl 🦉 Sunday I give you M97, the Owl Nebula, from the 0.9-meter telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory

It is object 97 in Charles Messier's catalog of “fuzzy things in the night sky that are not comets”. The Owl is a planetary nebula, the remains of a sun-like star that lost its outer layers at the end of its lifetime.

Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/noao-m97/

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