Click through the gallery to see this week’s helping of images not made on planet Earth. And if you need more when you’re done but can’t wait until the next one, here’s the entire collection.
Space Photos of the Week: Big Ol' Bubbles of Color
Space photos of the week, August 2–8.
This is the South Owl Nebula captured by the Very Large Telescope in northern Chile. Planetary nebulae are quite a common phenomenon, made from the ejected and expanding gas of dying stars. They exist briefly (only a few tens of thousands of years) and create beautiful bubbles which eventually fade away as the stars grow dimmer.<a href="http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1532/">ESO</a>
