Planetary nebula Hen 2-437's symmetrical wings appear icy blue in a photo captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

( ESA/Judy Schmidt, Hubble & NASA)

The Hubble Space Telescope has added a stunning photo of the Hen 2-437 nebula to its growing collection of stellar images. In the photo, it’s symmetrical wings appear in to shine an icy blue hue.

As seen in the photo, Hen 2-437 is a bipolar nebula; the material spewed from the dying star has spread out into space, creating the two icy blue wings.

First identified by Rudolph Minkowski in 1946, Hen 2-437 was added to a catalog of planetary nebula more than two decades later by astronomer and NASA astronaut Karl Gordon Henize, NASA also reports.

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Hen is a planetary nebula,, according to NASA. It is located within the northern constellation of Vulpecula (the Fox).

Planetary nebulae like Hen form when an aging low-mass star reaches its final stages of life. The star swells and becomes a red giant before it casts off its gaseous outer layers.

From that point, the star slowly shrinks and becomes a white dwarf. The expelled gas is slowly compressed and pushed outwards by stellar winds.

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