Sentences with phrase «beautiful planetary nebulae»
Ghostly and beautiful planetary nebulae» have nothing to do with planets but acquired this name because these glowing spheres of ionized gas resembled planets to early observers.
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«We want to identify the process that causes these amazing transformations from a puffed - up red giant to a beautiful, glowing planetary nebula,» Sahai said.
The final stages of life for a star like our Sun result in the star blowing its outer layers out into the surrounding space, forming objects known as planetary nebulae in a wide range of beautiful and striking shapes.
To O'Dell, who has been observing planetary nebulas for more than 40 years, all those beautiful shapes are a confounding diversion.
When that happens, it briefly exhales an extraordinarily beautiful, complex puff of gas known as a planetary nebula.
The ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured a beautiful image of a planetary nebula known as NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, as part of a wider study attempting to unravel the processes that give these vast cosmic clouds of dust and glowing gas their distinctive nebula known as NGC 7009, or the Saturn Nebula, as part of a wider study attempting to unravel the processes that give these vast cosmic clouds of dust and glowing gas their distinctive Nebula, as part of a wider study attempting to unravel the processes that give these vast cosmic clouds of dust and glowing gas their distinctive shape.