"NASA's Daily Astronomy Pictures Showcase Stunning Cosmic Wonders"

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"NASA's Daily Astronomy Pictures Showcase Stunning Cosmic Wonders"
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NASA shared a picture of the Helix Nebula, one of the brightest and closest examples of a planetary nebula, and asked if our Sun will look like this one day. The Helix Nebula is a gas cloud created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star, and it is located approximately 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. When the Sun exhausts its fuel in about five billion years, it will transform into a planetary nebula.

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