06/13/2026
The outer gas shell of a dying star. Our view recently of the Dumbbell Nebula 🔭
Any life forms looking at our own sun system in around 5 billion years will see a similar view. This is the fate of main sequence, middle-massed stars like our sun.
Traveling nearly 200,000 miles per SECOND, light emitted from the nebula takes over 1,000 years to reach Earth. It is located in the direction of the Vulpecula constellation in the middle of the Summer Triangle. Up all summer in our Unistellar !