This group portrait shows four
bipolar planetary nebulae imaged using ESO telescopes.
One type of such nebulae, known as
bipolar planetary nebulae, create ghostly hourglass or butterfly shapes around their parent stars.
The model we propose can help explain the presence of
bipolar planetary nebulae, the presence of knotty jet - like structures in many of these objects, and even multipolar planetary nebulae.
Not exact matches
The more matter spewed out along the equator rather than the poles, the more peanut - shaped, or «
bipolar,» the final
planetary nebula.