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Nearly a twin in size to Neptune

is an unusual planetary nebula

Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

The intense radiation from these stars heats up the cloud

Gum 15 Wall Art including Frame canvas is about 5The smokey black silhouette in this new image is part of a large, sparse cloud of partially ionised hydrogen an HII region known as Gum 15. In wide field images this nebula appears as a striking reddish purple clump dotted with stars and slashed by opaque, weaving dust lanes. This image homes in on one of these dust lanes, showing the central region of the nebula. These dark chunks of sky have seemingly few stars because lanes of dusty material are