Boomerang Nebula

The Boomerang Nebula ( English: Boomerang Nebula ) is a mist in the constellation Centaurus, 5,000 light-years from Earth, is located. The fog is 1 kelvin the coldest place in the universe that is known outside a laboratory. The boomerang nebula consists of the gas streams are in its core a star, which repels them. The gas removed with about 600,000 km / h this star. This expansion is the reason for the cold of the mist.

The boomerang nebula was photographed in detail in 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Keith Taylor and Mike Scarrott have the fog in 1980, named after observing him with a large telescope from Australia. Since that time they were not able to detect exact details of the nebula, they suspected that the fog looks like a boomerang. Hence the name.