Many nebulae in the night sky are named after insects or flowers, due to the appearance and color of these. This nebula is appropriately named the Butterfly Nebula. The distance across this nebula is 3 lights, a very profound length. The approximate surface temperature of this nebula is 250,000 degrees C. This photograph was taken in 2009 by the Hubble Space Telescope. This nebula is located in the constellation Scorpius, 4,000 light years away from our planet Earth.
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