JWST explores enigmatic mid-infrared rings in planetary nebula NGC 1514
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have observed enigmatic rings in the planetary nebula NGC 1514, ...
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When will the sun die?
In about 5 billion years, the sun will enter the red giant phase ... after the ejection of the stellar envelope and the planetary nebulae phase, will have cores with temperatures of 100,000 ...
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White Dwarfs
At this stage, the star becomes a large red giant. Because a red giant is ... which creates an expanding shell of gas called a planetary nebula. Within this nebula, the hot core of the star ...
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What will happen when our sun dies?
A planetary nebula marks the end of 90% of all stars active lives and traces the star’s transition from a red giant to a degenerate white dwarf. But, for years, scientists weren’t sure if the sun in ...
7 glittering images of Nebulae by NASA Hubble Telescope
Little Dumbbell Nebula (also known as Messier 76, M76, or NGC 650/651) located 3,400 light-years away in the northern circumpolar constellation Perseus. It is classified as a planetary nebula, an ...
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Why Magnetic Fields Cannot Be the Main Agent Shaping Planetary Nebulae
Skip to content viewer section. ABSTRACT An increasing amount of the literature reports the detection of magnetic fields in asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars and in central stars of planetary ...
Bubble Nebula: Spanning 7 light-years across, and about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, the Bubble Ne…
From the iconic 'Pillars of Creation' to the vivid colours of the Lagoon Nebula, check out these 7 astonishing photos of ...