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The ring nebula around the blue supergiant SBW1: pre-explosion snapshot of an SN 1987A twin, by Nathan Smith et al. (2013)

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013MNRA...
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Credit
NGC 6334, The Cat’s Paw Nebula

Credit:
T.A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage, T. Abbott and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM