For this week, I chose an APOD who's picture depicted the Helix Nebula in the constellation of Aquarius. I chose it because I remembered it was an object we had to know from the contellation quizzes but I never really had seen a picture of it. I think the nebula is very cool looking and I was not expecting it to look like that. According to the APOD entry, it took 28.5 hours of exposure to create the image which is very impressive. I also learned that apparently Aquarius is a sun-like star that is dying, this is new information.I also learned about the complexity of the nebula regarding it's geometrical features.
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