Cometary Knots Around A Dying Star

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Cometary Knots Around A Dying Star

These gigantic, tadpole-shaped objects are probably the result of a dying stars last gasps. Dubbed " cometary knots" because their glowing heads and gossamer tails resemble comets, the gaseous objects probably were formed during a stars final stages of life. Hubble astronomer C. Robert O Dell and graduate student Kerry P. Handron of Rice University in Houston, Texas discovered thousands of these knots with the Hubble Space Telescope while exploring the Helix nebula, the closest planetary nebula to Earth at 450 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. Although ground-based telescopes have revealed such objects, astronomers have never seen so many of them. The most visible knots all lie along the inner edge of the doomed stars ring, trillions of miles away from the stars nucleus. Although these gaseous knots appear small, they re actually huge. Each gaseous head is at least twice the size of our solar system; each tail stretches for 100 billion miles, about 1, 000 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Astronomers theorize that the doomed star spews hot, lower-density gas from its surface, which collides with cooler, higher-density gas that had been ejected 10, 000 years before. The crash fragments the smooth cloud surrounding the star into smaller, denser finger-like droplets, like dripping paint. This image was taken in August, 1994 with Hubbles Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The red light depicts nitrogen emission ([NII] 6584A); green, hydrogen (H-alpha, 6563A); and blue, oxygen (5007A). Space Image feature a selection of NASA's incredible imagery. © NASA

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Framed Prints

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Photo Prints

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Poster Prints

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Jigsaw Puzzles

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