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Boomerang nebula

The Boomerang nebula

The Boomerang nebula, also called the bowtie nebula since the Hubble space telescope revealed more detail, located 5,000 light-years from Earth,in the constellation Centaurus, is at 1 kelvin the coldest place known outside a laboratory.

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