Did you know about this?

Apparently there was a nebula that tricked astronomers for many many years.  This one is quite a bizarre story.  And it is about a nebula that tricked astronomers for almost an entire a decade…seriously.  They saw something or thought they did that was not there.  And here is the scoop on this story:

If you had to pick, how many planetary nebulae would you say are in the beautiful image above? For those of you playing along at home, planetary nebulae are those gorgeous, painted-looking spherical clouds of gas, which form around stars at the end of their life. And it looks like there are two of them here, right?

Well, it turns out that all that beauty can also be deceptive – because this image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope back in 2007 had astronomers convinced for almost a decade that it was showing two nebulae, rather than just one. And they’ve only recently figured out their mistake.

Well they admited it and have learned.  So what exactly happened with this illusion?  Remember the hubble is one of the most powerful and complex telescopes in the world?

Let’s find out more what they thought they saw on page 2

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