Sentences with phrase «emission of a planetary nebula»
To try to corroborate this theory, an image of the emission of a planetary nebula in the recombination lines of oxygen has been obtained with the GTC.
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More accurate distances between the most common type of «planetary nebulae» and the Earth can be estimated simply with three sets of data: firstly, the size of the object on the sky taken from the latest high resolution surveys; secondly, an accurate measurement of how bright the object is in the red hydrogen - alpha emission line; and thirdly, an estimate of the dimming toward the nebula caused by so called interstellar - reddening.
«To do this,» explains Antonio Cabrera Lavers, head of astronomy at the GTC and one of the authors of the paper, «we have used for the first time the blue tunable filter of OSIRIS to take a deep image centred on the emission from the recombination lines of one of the oxygen ions in the planetary nebula 6778.»