Credits: Planetary Nebula

 

 

 

Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach.

 

All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA, ESA, and STScI except:

 

·       Sun rotation movie courtesy of NASA/STEREO

·       Animation of Sun becoming a red dwarf courtesy of ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

·       Animation of a planetary nebula’s expansion courtesy of ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser)

·       Planetary nebula fly-around animation courtesy of ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser)

·       Taurus constellation drawing from Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia by Johannes Hevelius, courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory

·       Abell 39 image courtesy of WIYN/NOAO/NSF

·       Bipolar planetary nebula formation animation by Thomas Goertel (STScI)

·       Garden Sprinkler Nebula image courtesy of ESA, A. Riera (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) and P. Garcia-Lario (European Space Agency ISO Data Centre, Spain)

·       Garden sprinkler animation courtesy of ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

·       Saturn Nebula (NGC 7009) image courtesy of Brad Ehrhorn/Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF

·       Photo of observatory dome courtesy of Phil Massey, Lowell Observatory/NOAO/AURA/NSF

·       Animation of Hubble Space Telescope over Earth courtesy of ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

·       Cat’s Eye Nebula ground-based image courtesy of Bruce Balick, University of Washington

·       Ring Nebula ground-based image courtesy of Daniel Folha and Simon Tulloch, Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma

·       Helix Nebula ground-based image copyright Edward M. Henry

·       Image of Magellanic Clouds courtesy of ESO/C. Malin

·       Image of Large Magellanic Cloud © Australian Astronomical Observatory; photograph by David Malin

 

 

Written by Vanessa Thomas and John Stoke

Designed by John Godfrey 

Music courtesy of Association Production Music