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A Rare Gourd
A Rare Gourd NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the Calabash Nebula, showing the death of a low-mass star. The star is undergoing a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, expelling its outer layers into space. The ejected material is moving at incredible speeds, with gas shown in yellow […]
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Red Spider Nebula
Red Spider Nebula The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of the Red Spider Nebula, a planetary nebula. The image reveals the full extent of the nebula’s outstretched lobes, which form the ‘legs’ of the spider and are traced by light emitted from H2 molecules. The lobes are shown to be closed, bubble-like […]
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Hubble Captures a Star’s Swan Song
Hubble Captures a Star’s Swan Song Hubble has captured an image of Kohoutek 4-55, a planetary nebula located 4,600 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, showcasing the star’s final display before it exhausts its fuel. The image features swirling clouds of ionized atoms thrown into space by a dying star, with different colors indicating the […]
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X-ray Clues Reveal Destroyed Planet
X-ray Clues Reveal Destroyed Planet In about 5 billion years, our Sun will run out of fuel and expand, possibly engulfing Earth. These end stages of a star’s life can be utterly beautiful – as is the case with this planetary nebula called the Helix Nebula. Astronomers study these objects by looking at all kinds […]
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