2011 April 7th
This is a planetary nebulae. This picture is obviously very aesthetically appealing and is very intriguing just after looking at it. However, it is even cooler to know that the reason it looks like this is because this star much like our sun has been existing for so long that is has run out of hydrogen at its core. It's cool to extrapolate that data and move the information to our sun where this process will occur eventually. (Hopefully by then we'll be living in other galaxies and planets...Haha.) Still, this is part of a stars life and turns out to be a very beautiful one! This occurs in a relatively young star cluster M46 which is found in Puppis.
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