The XMM-Newton space
observatory agree to us to look surrounded by the covering fuzzy Eskimo Nebula,
instructive a warm face gas to 2 million degrees Celsius.
This image is a amalgam
of data collected by XMM-Newton (blue) and the Hubble Space Telescope (red and
green), and highlights the complex nature of terrestrial nebula, the swan song
of stars like our Sun .
When these stars
mature, they begin to shed their outer layers to expose its core, a high
temperature.
