Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Boomerang Nebula





"Boomerang Nebula is the Coldest place in the Universe"


-Boomerang Nubula is a protoplanetary nubula located 5,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It is also known as the Bow Tie Nebula and catalogued as PGC 3074547. The nebula's temperature is measured at 1 K (−272.15 °C; −457.87 °F) making it the coolest natural place currently known in the Universe.
The Boomerang Nebula is believed to be a stellar system evolving toward theplanetary nebula phase. It continues to form and develop due to the outflow of gas from its core where a star in its late stage life sheds mass and emits starlight illuminating dust in the nebula.
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