Boomerang Nebula

It indeed is true that it takes the sadness of life to appreciate the beauty of death.

A nebula is formed either through the explosion of dying star or where new stars are beginning to form. This ends up in creating a giant cloud of dust and gas in space, the giant cloud being called ‘Nebula’.

The Boomerang Nebula is found in the constellation ‘Centaurus’, getting it’s name from it’s symmetric structure.

Each nebula is different and this nebula is easily distinguishable from the surrounding stars and on looking closer it appears bluish-green in color.

The ‘coolest’ part about this Nebula is, that it is the ‘coldest’ object found in the universe so far, approximately 5000 light years away from Earth and the temperature is nearly one degree Kelvin that is -272.15°C or -457.87°F.

But why is it so cold?

A small companion star has plunged into the heart of the nebula, ejecting most of the matter of the larger star. Over the past 1500 years, the central star of the boomerang nebula has lost nearly one and a half times the mass of Sun in an ejection process known as bipolar outflow.

Well, it’s so young that it is expanding very fast therefore the force of its expanding gas is what makes the Boomerang Nebula cold (It is a simple principle of Science — quickly expanding gas always becomes colder)

It was observed/captured by none other than the Hubble Telescope.

Fun Fact : We also observed that the Boomerang Nebula looks somewhat similar to the characters of a famous game ‘Among Us’. Let us know if you think the same😉