White Dwarf Lost in Planetary Nebula
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 10:35
in Astronomy & Space
A team of stellar astronomers is engaged in an interstellar crime scene investigation. They have two suspects, traces of assault and battery, but no corpse. The southern planetary nebula SuWt 2 is the scene of the crime, some 6,500 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Centaurus. The glowing ejecta are suspected to have been energized by a star that has now burned out and collapsed to a white dwarf.
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