Zooming-in to NGC 7027

This video zooms into the planetary nebula NGC 7027. The object had been slowly puffing away its mass in quiet, spherically symmetric or perhaps spiral patterns for centuries — until relatively recently when it produced a new cloverleaf pattern. More information and download options: Credit: ESA/Hubble, Risinger, Digitized Sky Survey 2, L. Calcada Music: Astral Electronic