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See a bubble of super-hot gas at the center of a dying star – FREE NEWS
When stars like the Sun burn up all their fuel, they shed their outer layers, and the star’s core shrinks
When stars like the Sun burn up all their fuel, they shed their outer layers, and the star’s core shrinks. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered a bubble of super-hot gas at the center of one of these effusive stars, the planetary nebula IC 4593.
The IC 4593 nebula is located in the Milky Way galaxy about 7,800 light-years from Earth. It is the most distant planetary nebula discovered by the Chandra telescope.
In this new image of IC 4593, the bubble detected by the…
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