Spanish astronomers discovered a nebula in an extraordinary way
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
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Since in 1785 the British astronomer William Herschel called 'planetary nebula' to certain hot gas clouds and bright , astronomers have continued to be amazed by the physical properties and the beauty of these objects. planetary nebulae are a late stage in the evolution of most stars in the universe .
A new study of the Milky Way made from the observatories of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) has allowed to reveal this extraordinary cosmic object called Nebula Necklace, which could provide important clues for understanding the final evolution of stars like the Sun
The image presented is Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) the Observatory Roque de los Muchachos (La Palma) and shows emission from ionized oxygen coded in green, the ionized nitrogen in red and Hydrogen in blue.
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