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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Star Death and Born-again

Born-again star foreshadows fate of Solar System
 
Abell 30: a born-again planetary nebula
Abell 30: a born-again planetary nebula
 
15 November 2012
Astronomers have found evidence for a dying Sun-like star coming briefly back to life after casting its gassy shells out into space, mimicking the possible fate our own Solar System faces in a few billion years.
 
This new picture of the planetary nebula Abell 30, located 5500 light-years from Earth, is a composite of visible images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and X-ray data from ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra space telescopes./.../

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