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The Mystery of This Strange, Blue Nebula May Have Finally Been Solved – ScienceAlert
In 2004, astronomers found something really weird. Around 6,200 light-years away, a star was found surrounded by a ring-shaped nebula glowing in invisible ultraviolet…
In 2004, astronomers found something really weird. Around 6,200 light-years away, a star was found surrounded by a ring-shaped nebula glowing in invisible ultraviolet light.
There’s nothing else quite like it in the Milky Way galaxy, making it difficult to figure out how and why the object, named the Blue Ring Nebula, got that way.
We now, finally, have an answer that works. The complex structures around the star, named TYC 2597-735-1, are the result of two stars merging.
It turns out TYC 2597-735-1…
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