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Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb

By |2025-04-15T09:09:06-04:00April 15th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What happens when a star runs out of nuclear fuel? For stars like our Sun, the center condenses into a white dwarf while the outer atmosphere is expelled into space to appear as a planetary nebula. The expelled outer atmosphere of planetary nebula NGC 1514 appears to be a jumble [...]

GK Per: Nova and Planetary Nebula

By |2024-04-30T09:09:11-04:00April 30th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The star system GK Per is known to be associated with only two of the three nebulas pictured. At 1500 light years distant, Nova Persei 1901 (GK Persei) was the second closest nova yet recorded. At the very center is a white dwarf star, the surviving core of a former [...]

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