Helix Nebula

5.74 LIGHT YEARS

Staring us all down from 655 light years away, the Helix Nebula is the graveyard of a solar system that may have been a lot like ours. Today, what was once the solar system’s sun is now a white dwarf about the size of the Earth. Creepily, some comets still orbit around inside the nebula, like zombies wandering around a cemetery.

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