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Dying stars







Natural Incandescence: Dying stars with planetary nebula. All images taken from the hubblespacecraft.


A nebula comes from latin meaning cloud, it is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and ionized gases. A planetary nebula forms when dying sun-like stars gently eject their outer gaseous layers to form bright nebulae with amazing twisted shapes.
Planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets.