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This is the smallest* planetary nebula I've found in the archive yet, zoomed to 200%. Isn't it cute? Ok, maybe only an astronomer could love this little guy. Paul W. Merrill discovered this without a fancy space telescope by using spectroscopy.

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English: This is the smallest* planetary nebula I've found in the archive yet, zoomed to 200%. Isn't it cute? Ok, maybe only an astronomer could love this little guy.

Paul W. Merrill discovered this without a fancy space telescope by using spectroscopy. This view is small but Merrill never saw it with any detail at all. It's almost indistinguishable from a star through anything but a powerful telescope like Hubble.

  • it's now the second smallest, losing to Hen 2-131

Red: hst_05107_02_wfpc2_f439w_wf_sci + hst_05107_02_wfpc2_f547m_wf_sci Green: hst_05107_02_wfpc2_f336w_wf_sci

Blue: hst_05107_02_wfpc2_f336w_wf_sci
Date Taken on 17 September 2013, 19:06:44
Source Me 2-1
Author geckzilla
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all astronomy; Hubble Processing; Planetary Nebulas
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hubble; me21; planetary; hla; nebula; merrill

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