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At the center of the image is the dying star. It's surrounded by a white, pink, and orange wispy "cloud" of gas. Farther away, more gas and dust creates an orange-and-yellow circular "ring" around the center. There is a faint blue glow behind this object.

C39 (NGC 2392)

This composite image of Caldwell 39 (NGC 2392) contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in purple, showing the location of million-degree gas near the center of the planetary nebula. Data from the Hubble Space Telescope — colored red, green, and blue — show the intricate pattern of the outer layers of gas that have been ejected from the star.

Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/IAA-CSIC/N. Ruiz et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI
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Image CreditX-ray: NASA/CXC/IAA-CSIC/N. Ruiz et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI
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