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Showing posts with label planetary nebula. Show all posts
Showing posts with label planetary nebula. Show all posts

Monday, July 15, 2013

Colorful imaged the death of a planetary nebula

The NASA has achieved through his telescope Chandra grasping the end of a star's life, namely NGC 2393, known as "Eskimo Nebula". This study allows astronomers to predict the demise of the Sun, expected within about 5,000 million years.

Planetary nebulae like this are formed when a star consumes all the hydrogen in its core, something will happen to our sun in about 5,000 million years, reports NASA. At the time this happens, 

Monday, April 22, 2013

VLT made a new snapshot of the planetary nebula


This absorbing new photo taken with a telescope Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory shows a sparkling ghostly green planetary nebula IC 1295 Environmental dim, dying star, located 3300 light-years away in the constellation of the Shield. Cnimok is the most detailed of when -either of the images of the object.

Stars the size of our Sun end their life cycles, turning into a tiny, faint white dwarfs.