This is a public domain photo from the GRIN Great Images In NASA Collection within the NASA image archive.

This eerie public domain photo from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a planetary nebula, or remnants of a dying star. This image would work wonderfully as a wallpaper or as an incorporation into a background texture collage.

This image was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope – NASA. NASA is an Agency of the United States Government, therefore this image is in the public domain.

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1. Melinda
   03.20.10

   This is a picture of a nebula in outer space. The short description below it states that it is a star dying. I find that ironic because it looks so cheerful and bright. To me it looks more like a star being born. The colors on this are muted, but lined with bright oranges and yellows. This gives it the appearance of glowing outward, and almost gives it the appearance of movement. The background around the dying star is a muted shade of blue, making it look like the sky in our atmosphere rather than in space. The shape of the gasses in the middle almost looks like a heart. Knowing that it is an image of a star dying, the heart appears to be coming out from the star. It makes me wonder if this was a very old star and it wants to go out sending love to everyone. All this talk about hearts makes me look at this photo in a different way than you would expect. I see it as warm and fuzzy rather than dark and gloomy. I think this would be great cover art for a CD cover or even on a book cover. It sure has a lot more going on in it than you think!

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2. Rajeev Kumar
   03.22.10

   This is a picture of nebula .The brief description says it is a dying star.But, for me it is just wonderful, outstanding image.I have never seen such images which has so much fire and colors.Its shape is so unique very similar to diamond.It contains several colors like yellow,mixture of red and orange.It seems like fire is coming out from it.It looks that it is burning.In the center I can see light blue colors and they are just overlapping each other.Its so bright and live.It doesn’t looks the star is dying it really seems like a new life will come from it.In the center of the shape one white dot is there may be it is some light.This image is full of color and suspenses.I think its beyond the imagination.I can’t define it in words.The dark blue color which has some sparks on it ,is looking so cool.It seems like someone has taken the picture of a Volcano from the top.it is giving so much energy I think this picture will look nice in Living Room with a black frame.I don’t think other colors will look nice because it is already colorful.

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