This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way,

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This image may not be used by or to promote the arms, nuclear power or tobacco industries or any religious organisation, or in any discriminatory way, or to imply the endorsement by ESO of any product, service or activity Dumbbell Nebula. Optical image of the Dumbbell Nebula, also known as Messier 27 and NGC 6853. This is a typical planetary nebula, formed by gas thrown off by a central star near the end of its life. The Dumbbell Nebula is some 1200 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula. This image was made using the Very Large Telescope 'Antu' at the Cerro Paranal Observatory, Chile.

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