BOOMERANG NEBULA

BY NUMBERS 5,000 light years x10 away from Earth

It ejects matter ten times faster than a single star could 3 on its own trillion

The outflow stretches more than 3 trillion kilometres end One to end

Each lobe is one light year in length 100,000

The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years across 21,000 times the distance between the Sun and Earth 150KM

The outflow is travelling at 150 kilometres per second 1980

The year the name was coined