Sentences with phrase «of a planetary nebula known»

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 shape.

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That phase is called the proto - planetary nebula, and is so short that only a few of these objects are known.

As well as this black hole, Messier 15 is known to house a planetary nebula, Pease 1 [4]-- and it was the first globular known to contain one of these objects [5].

Astronomers know that while large stars can end their lives as violently cataclysmic supernovae, smaller stars end up as planetary nebulae — colourful, glowing clouds of dust and gas.

Astronomers were thrilled when they first saw the Hubble images of the planetary nebulas ngc 7027 and crl 2688, also known as the Egg nebula.

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.

One type of such nebulae, known as bipolar planetary nebulae, create ghostly hourglass or butterfly shapes around their parent stars.

When that happens, it briefly exhales an extraordinarily beautiful, complex puff of gas known as a planetary nebula.

This pretty planetary nebula is found in the constellation of Vela and is also known as the Eight - Burst nebula.

The stellar corpses — highly dense objects known as white dwarfs — were spotted inside a dense cloud of gas and dust known as a planetary nebula.

The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known.

When the helium ignites, the outer layers of the star are blown off in huge clouds of gas and dust known as planetary nebulae.

The gaseous clouds known as planetary nebulae are only superficially similar to other types of nebulae.

As for most planetary nebulae, the distance of M27 (and thus true dimension and intrinsic luminosity) is not very well known.

There are more than 1,000 known planetary nebulae in the Galaxy, but more might be overlooked because of obscuration in the Milky Way region.