The Waning Moon Wall Art Size:LARGE (36 X 24) expel a shell of gas

expel a shell of gas as they evolve into white dwarfs

the WFPC2 science team

Clusters like this are celestial laboratories that allow astronomers to learn more about how stars evolve

Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

through three filters (B

The Waning Moon Wall Art Size:LARGE (36 X 24) expel a shell of gasA series of short exposures through a near infrared filtre was obtained of the waning Moon at sunrise on January 12 (at about 10 hrs UT), i. e. about 5 days before New Moon (24. 3 days "old"). As can be seen in the image, the edge of the full field of view is about the size of the diameter of the Moon. Several 0. 1 sec exposures were made through a near infrared filtre (856 nm; FWHM 14 nm) with small offsets were recombined (to cover the gaps between