Very Large Telescope Zooms in on Fried Egg Nebula

The European Space Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured new images of IRAS 17163-3907 that reveal a double shell, giving it a new nickname: the Fried Egg Nebula.
Very Large Telescope Zooms in on Fried Egg Nebula
This picture of the nebula around a rare yellow hypergiant star called IRAS 17163-3907 is the best ever taken of a star in this class and shows for the first time a huge dusty double shell surrounding the central star. ESO/E. Lagadec
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This picture of the nebula around a rare yellow hypergiant star called IRAS 17163-3907 is the best ever taken of a star in this class and shows for the first time a huge dusty double shell surrounding the central star. (ESO/E. Lagadec)
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