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Shells in the Egg Nebula
The Egg Nebula is taking a beating. Like a baby chick pecking its way out of an egg, the star in the center of the nebula is casting away shells of gas and dust as it slowly transforms itself into a white dwarf star in this image taken by the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer aboard the Hubble Space Telescope.
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