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'''NGC 6302''' (aka Bug Nebula or Butterfly Nebula) is a bipolar planetary [[nebula]]. It's 3,800 ly from the constellation Scorpius. This is about half the distance from the [[Sol/Sol|Sun]] to the nearest star, [[Alpha Centauri]]. The glowing gas is the star’s outer layers that expelled over about 2,200 years. It resembles butterfly wing that stretch for more than two light-years. These are actually cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit.<ref name=":0">[https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/multimedia/ero/ero_ngc6302.html Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302 - NASA]</ref><br />
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The central star is hidden within a doughnut-shaped ring of dust which constricts its outflow and creates the hourglass shape. Its temperature is about 250,000 degrees Celsius (400,000 degrees Fahrenheit) which makes it one of the hottest known stars in the [[galaxy]]. It has one of the most complex nebula structures.<ref name=":0" /><br />
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NGC-6302-Bug-Nebula.png|NGC 6302<br />
Wolf%E2%80%93Rayet-star-in-NGC-6302.png|Wolf-Rayet star in NGC 6302<br />
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