The Boomerang Nebula is a protoplanetary nebula [2] located 5,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It is also known as the Bow Tie Nebula and catalogued as LEDA 3074547. [3] The nebula's temperature is measured at 1 K (−272.15 °C; −457.87 °F) making it the coolest natural place currently known in the Universe. [4] [5 ...

Mar 23, 2008 · The Boomerang Nebula is about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the Southern constellation Centaurus. Measurements show the nebula has a temperature of only one degree Kelvin above absolute zero (nearly -460 degrees Fahrenheit).

Mar 23, 2008 · The Boomerang Nebula is about 5,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the Southern constellation Centaurus. Measurements show the nebula has a temperature of only one degree Kelvin above absolute zero (nearly -460 degrees Fahrenheit).

Jan 1, 2024 · The Boomerang Nebula is one of the most puzzling bipolar reflection nebulae known. It lies 5,000 light-years distant in Centaurus, just 3⅓° north-northeast of Gacrux (Gamma [γ] Crucis) in the...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a young planetary nebula known (rather curiously) as the Boomerang Nebula. It is in the constellation of Centaurus, 5000 light-years from Earth.

Jul 30, 2024 · The Boomerang Nebula (ESO 172-7) is a protoplanetary nebula located approximately 1,213 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus. Also known as the Centaurus Bipolar Nebula, it is currently the coldest known place in the universe. It has a temperature of only 1 K (-272.15°C or -458°F).

Sep 1, 2019 · This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a young planetary nebula known (rather curiously) as the Boomerang Nebula. It is in the constellation of Centaurus, 5000 light-years from Earth. Planetary nebulae form around a bright, central star when it expels gas in the last stages of its life.

Jun 7, 2017 · Some 5,000 light-years from Earth, there's a bizarre and mysterious nebula that clocks an average temperature of just 1 Kelvin (−272.15 °C or −457.87 °F), making it the coldest natural object in the known Universe.

At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin (minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit), the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe – colder, in fact, than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, which is the natural background temperature of space.

Dec 20, 2023 · But, there is one place in the universe that makes even the coldest winter weather look positively balmy: the Boomerang Nebula, a cloud of gas and dust located around 5,000 light years from...

Sep 13, 2005 · This image of the Boomerang Nebula was taken in 1998 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 instrument. Keith Taylor and Mike Scarrott called it the Boomerang Nebula in 1980 after observing it with a large ground-based telescope in Australia.

Jun 20, 1997 · The cold region, found some 5,000 light years from Earth in the Boomerang Nebula, has a temperature of about 1 Kelvin, or minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit. It represents the outer regions of a cold wind being blown by a dying star.

Aug 19, 2023 · Stunning image of the Boomerang Nebula, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, utilizing its Advanced Camera for Surveys. Located about 5,000 light years away, this nebula is near-absolute zero temperature.

Nov 16, 2016 · This is the Boomerang Nebula, located just 5,000 light years away in our own galaxy. In 1980, when it was first observed from Australia, it looked like a two-lobed, asymmetrical nebula, and...

Jun 14, 2014 · Composite image of the Boomerang Nebula, a pre-planetary nebula produced by a dying star. ALMA observations (orange) showing the hourglass-shaped outflow, which is embedded inside a roughly round ultra-cold outflow.

The Boomerang Nebula is a protoplanetary nebula located in the constellation Centaurus, around 5,000 light years away from the Solar System. It is the coldest place in the universe, with a temperature of only 1 Kelvin (-272.15°C or -458°F).

Feb 13, 2015 · The Boomerang Nebula’s central star has lost an entire Sun’s worth of material just since A.D. 500 — an unsustainable mass-loss that will not endure much longer.

Feb 20, 2003 · The Boomerang Nebula is a young planetary nebula and the coldest object found in the Universe so far. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image illustrates how Hubble's keen vision reveals surprises in celestial objects.

Jun 7, 2017 · An ancient, red giant star in the throes of a frigid death has produced the coldest known object in the cosmos: the Boomerang Nebula. But how was this star able to create an environment so much colder than the natural background temperature of deep space?

Feb 22, 2003 · This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a young planetary nebula known (rather curiously) as the Boomerang Nebula. It is in the constellation of Centaurus, 5000 light-years from Earth.