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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.
Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA, T. Ueta, H. Kim
Coordinates 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.