Cosmic wonders - Caught in the web of the Red Spider Nebula

Lola Gayle, STEAM Register The Red Spider Nebula (NGC 6537), located 3,000 light-years away near the heart of the Milky Way in the constellation of Sagittarius, is a striking ‘butterfly' or bipolar (two-lobed) planetary nebula. Planetary nebulae are the glowing embers of ordinary stars, such as our Sun. At the end of their lives these stars…