Sentences with phrase «ring nebula»

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You can see the Moon, Mars» landscapes, the rings of Saturn, Jupiter and all its satellites, and many nebulae.

The Butterfly nebula's distinctive shape results from a ring of dust that prevents the gas from spreading uniformly in all directions.

«The ring is in exactly the right place to tie the pulsar with the larger nebula,» Hester says.

The swirls, especially a bright inner ring, may trace the long - sought «power conduits» that pump energy from the pulsar to the glowing nebula, according to researchers who spoke today at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

A ring, sharp jets, and other bright x-ray features surround the central neutron star in the Crab Nebula in this new image (left) from the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The main ring of the Helix Nebula is about 2 light - years across, about half the distance from our sun to the nearest star.

The bubble is a nebula with a clutch of massive, hot stars at its center that is sending waves of matter smashing into the surrounding interstellar material, generating a glowing structure, which looks like a ring from our perspective.

A dark ring of dust and gas circling the star (dark bands, center), material that may one day coalesce into a planetary system, acts like a belt, cinching the nebula into an hourglass shape.

The Little Ghost (right) is a more classic planetary nebula: Its doughnut is the steadily expanding ring of star gas that has been ionized and set aglow by ultraviolet light from the central white dwarf.

Scientists said that the nebula is expanding at more than 43,000 miles an hour, while the center is moving faster than the expansion of the main ring.

Pioneer astrophotographer Isaac Roberts found that this was not a double, but a single nebula, and first suspected it might be a broad ring seen edgewise.

From near one pole, it would probably have the shape of a ring, and perhaps look like we view the Ring Nebula M57.

Composite picture of the Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543), combining three images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.This planetary nebula has an unusually complicated structure, with concentric shells (seen as bright rings), jets (the projections at upper left and lower right), and a number of details that suggest complex interactions of shock Nebula (NGC 6543), combining three images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.This planetary nebula has an unusually complicated structure, with concentric shells (seen as bright rings), jets (the projections at upper left and lower right), and a number of details that suggest complex interactions of shock nebula has an unusually complicated structure, with concentric shells (seen as bright rings), jets (the projections at upper left and lower right), and a number of details that suggest complex interactions of shock waves.

Low - to medium - mass stars, such as the sun, will eventually swell up into red giants, eventually shedding their outer layers into a ring known as a planetary nebula (early observers thought the nebulae resembled planets such as Neptune and Uranus).

The pulsations that resulted in the creation of the rings are thought to have started some 15,000 years ago and stopped when the central part of the nebula was formed about 1,000 years ago.

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