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English: CW Leonis

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates Halloween this year with a striking observation of the carbon star CW Leonis, which resembles a baleful orange eye glaring from behind a shroud of smoke.

CW Leonis glowers from deep within a thick shroud of dust in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Lying roughly 400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo, CW Leonis is a carbon star — a luminous type of red giant star with a carbon-rich atmosphere. The dense clouds of sooty gas and dust engulfing this dying star were created as the outer layers of CW Leonis itself were thrown out into the void.

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ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Ueta, H. Kim


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Position (RA):  	9 47 57.42
Position (Dec): 	13° 16' 45.09"
Field of view:  	2.39 x 2.12 arcminutes
Orientation:    	North is 157.8° right of vertical

Colours & filters Band	Wavelength	Telescope
Optical V       	606 nm   	Hubble Space Telescope WFC3
Infrared Y      	986 nm   	Hubble Space Telescope WFC3
Optical V       	606 nm   	Hubble Space Telescope WFC3
Optical I       	814 nm   	Hubble Space Telescope WFC3
Optical´I       	814 nm   	Hubble Space Telescope WFC3
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Date 28 October 2021, 17:00(Release)
Source https://esahubble.org/images/heic2112a/
Author (Credit) ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Ueta, H. Kim

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