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WATCH: NASA’s Hubble Telescope Celebrates 34th Anniversary with Look at Dumbbell Nebula

M76 is classified as a planetary nebula, an expanding shell of glowing gases ejected from a dying red giant star. The star eventually collapses into an ultra-dense and hot white dwarf. A planetary nebula is unrelated to planets, but has that name because astronomers in the 1700s using low-power telescopes thought this type of object resembled a planet. […]