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Scientists reveal Southern Ring Nebula's unexpected structure: 'We were amazed'
Kastner emphasizes that this explanation is still speculative, but the nebula's central ionized cavity does bear the evidence of such jets in its structure. Other ring-shaped planetary nebulas ...
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Connecting Planetary Nebulae with Their Host Galaxy Stellar Population Properties
Planetary Nebulae (PNe) are emission-line nebulae in a short-lived late stage of stellar evolution for low- to ...
7 jaw-dropping images of Ring Nebula captured by NASA
This close-up, visible-light view by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals previously unseen details of the Ring Nebula. The Hubble observations reveal that Ring Nebula's shape is more complicated ...
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James Webb telescope captures end stages of dying star's life
They show an unprecedented level of detail of a doughnut-like structure of glowing ... "We can use the Ring Nebula as our laboratory to study how planetary nebulae form and evolve." ...
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Manchester astronomer captures stunning images of the Ring Nebula on James Webb Space Telescope
A small telescope will already reveal the characteristic donut-like structure of glowing gas that gave the Ring Nebula its name. The Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula - objects that are the colourful ...
7 jaw-dropping images of Nebulae captured by NASA
The Helix Nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. Though it looks like a bubble or eye from Earth's point of view, the Helix is actually a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases. In its center ...