Planetary nebula in the constellation Lyra. The nebula is located 2,300 light-years from Earth. At the center of the nebula lies a white dwarf, which was the core of a star before it shed its outer layers. Before that, the star was similar to Mira Ceti, and its mass was about one solar mass.
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