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Showing posts with label Eskimo Nebula X-ray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eskimo Nebula X-ray. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2013

The Eskimo Nebula X-ray


The XMM-Newton space observatory agree to us to look surrounded by the covering fuzzy Eskimo Nebula, instructive a warm face gas to 2 million degrees Celsius.

This image is a amalgam of data collected by XMM-Newton (blue) and the Hubble Space Telescope (red and green), and highlights the complex nature of terrestrial nebula, the swan song of stars like our Sun .

When these stars mature, they begin to shed their outer layers to expose its core, a high temperature.