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Showing posts with label the Helix nebula. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Helix nebula. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

The spectacular new image of the Helix nebula shows infrared colors


According to new observations from the Spritzer Space Telescope for NASA, a group of comets is disgraceful collide and kicking up dust around a dead star. The star is at the center of the much-photographed Helix nebula (Helix), a bright cloud of gas with an uncanny resemblance to a giant eye.
"We were surprised to see so much dust around this star," said Dr. Kate Su of the University of Arizona in Tucson, lead author of the article written about the results. The work will appear in the March 1 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters."The dust must be coming from comets that survived the death of their sun."