is shown in the last image acquired by the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST.) This object, remnants of an exploded star, is located in the constellation Cygnus at a distance of 4,600 light-years (1.4 kiloparsecs.)Although this imaging instrument will be removed from the HST, it will be replaced by a vastly more capable panchromatic camera among other upgrades during Servicing Mission 4.
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