What exactly is a cosmic butterfly? And how did a telescope manage to take an image of it? Let’s find out.

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) is located in the Atacama Desert in Chile. It is operated by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Besides, VLT has captured images of many wonderful space objects.

Its most recent image is of an amazing “cosmic butterfly”. It is located between 3000 and 6500 light-years away 

This “cosmic butterfly” is actually a giant cloud of gas that forms around an unexploded star. It is called a planetary nebula.

This planetary nebula is officially known as NGC 2899. It looks like a beautiful cosmic butterfly with blue, purple and violet colours.

NGC 2899 lies in the constellation of Vela. Also, the temperature there can reach over ten thousand degrees.

This is the first time that astronomers have captured this space object in such detail. This image was captured under the ESO Cosmic Gems programme. This programme aims to produce images of interesting and beautiful objects using ESO telescopes.

Here is a video of this amazing “cosmic butterfly”:

 

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