APOD: 2025 August 31 Б NGC 7027: The Pillow Planetary Nebula
31.08.2025 | Астрономическая картинка дня

What created this unusual planetary nebula? Dubbed the Pillow Nebula and the Flying Carpet Nebula, NGC 7027 is one of the smallest, brightest, and most unusually shaped planetary nebulas known. Given its expansion rate, NGC 7027 first started expanding, as visible from Earth, about 600 years ago.