Nebula smells unpleasant rotten eggs in the universe

The NASA Aerospace Agency (NASA) has just released a picture of the Calabash nebula located 5,000 light-years from Earth, one of the most unpleasant smells in the universe.

Calabash Nebula formed by material released from a dead star.(Photo: NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.)

NASA has released a picture of a gas cloud called the Calabash Nebula, also known as a rotten egg nebula , located 5,000 light-years from Earth, reported on February 3. This is one of the most unpleasant scents in the universe because the Calabash Nebula contains a lot of sulfur, an element that when combined with other elements will create odors like rotten eggs.

NASA's image shows that this nebula is formed by matter emanating from a dead star similar in size to the Sun.

"It is rapidly changing from a giant red star to a planetary nebula. That process releases layers of gas and dust outside the star into the surrounding space," NASA wrote.

Scientists rarely capture this phase in a star because it lasts only a few thousand years, a very short time in astronomy.