Wallpaper author:
Diptiman Nandy
31 May 2022
Evil's Eye
IC 1295 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Scutum. It was discovered in 1867 by Truman Safford. It lies roughly 4,700 light-years (1,500 parsecs) away. This picture shows the glowing green planetary nebula IC 1295 (middle left) surrounding a dim dying star and the globular cluster NGC 6712 (upper right corner).
Dataset from which the image was processed
IC 1295
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