Helix Nebula NGC 7293 PopGrip phone case Tropical Storm Fernand packed sustained

Tropical Storm Fernand packed sustained winds of 45 mph and had just recently made landfall over northeastern Mexico

The data extraction from the archive

was chosen to mark the 26th anniversary of the launch of Hubble into Earth orbit by the STS-31 space shuttle crew on April 24

a beautiful stellar nursery located in the constellation of Gemini (The Twins)

lying about 1350 light-years from Earth

Helix Nebula NGC 7293 PopGrip phone case Tropical Storm Fernand packed sustainedThis colour composite image of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) was created from images obtained using the Wide Field Imager (WFI), an astronomical camera attached to the 2. 2 metre Max Planck Society ESO telescope at the La Silla observatory in Chile. The blue green glow in the centre of the Helix comes from oxygen atoms shining under effects of the intense ultraviolet radiation of the 120 000 degree Celsius central star and the hot gas. Further out from