Cosmic Butterfly | Space Wallpaper

Wednesday, January 8, 2014 - 10:30 in Astronomy & Space

This beautiful space wallpaper taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows an example of a bipolar planetary nebula. This object, which is known as Hubble 12 and also catalogued as PN G111.8-02.8, lies in the constellation of Cassiopeia.

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