On May of 2003 this image was captured by NASA using the Hubble telescope and they referred to it as the "Eye of God". What it actually depicts is the so-called Helix Nebula, described by astronomers as "a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases." At its center is dying star which has ejected masses of dust and gas to form tentacle-like filaments stretching toward an outer rim composed of the same material. Our own sun may look like this in several billion years. Then a few days later NASA realized that one of the Hubble telescopes mirrors was askew and when they refocused it they were shocked to learn there was actually two of these eyes side my side each other.
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