🦋 🥊 It might look like a butterfly, but stings like a bee. Don’t let those graceful wings fool you. It might look like NASAHubble captured an image of a peaceful cosmic butterfly, but the truth is vastly more violent. With a wingspan covering over 3 light-years, the Butterfly Nebula is ejecting layers of gas from a dying star located at its center. Streams of intense ultraviolet radiation cause the cast-off material to glow, but eventually the nebula will fade and leave behind only a small stellar corpse called a white dwarf. Our middle-aged Sun can expect a similar fate once it runs out of fuel in about six billion years. 📲 Check out Instagram story to screenshot this as your new wallpaper! Credit: NASA #ButterfliesOfInstagram #Nebula #Cosmic #NASA #CoolFacts #Exploration