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© NASA, WIYN, NOAO, ESA, Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner [STScI], & T. A. Rector [NRAO] 2005 — This is a picture taken by NASA with the Hubble telescope. They are referring to it as the »Eye of God«. The image depicts the so-called Helix Nebula, described by astronomers as »a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases«. At its center is dying, Sun-like star which has ejected masses of dust and gas to form tentacle-like filaments stretching toward an outer rim composed of the same material. The Sun itself may look like this in several billion years.