The Eight Burst Nebula


	The Eight Burst Nebula

AndreaJoRush

10-14-2007 1:38 PM

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10-15-2007 12:06 AM

davboz

Awesome!

10-15-2007 9:39 AM

kdoug

this is incredible photography

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b48a1d1b-2b15-4443-8031-64f60b267d1c/649A8AF8-1571-45E0-AD5B-F42EBEB60DFB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071014.html" href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071014.html" style="font-size: 11px;">antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071014.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/img/911E935B-449C-47D5-91DB-8A8E33363EA4" alt="See Explanation.  Clicking on the picture will download
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<B> Explanation: </B>
It's the dim star, not the bright one, near the center of
<A href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?
bibcode=1997AAS...191.1508S" linkindex="7" set="yes">NGC 3132</A> that created this odd but beautiful 
<A href="http://www.seds.org/messier/planetar.html" linkindex="8">planetary nebula</A>.  
Nicknamed the 
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3132" linkindex="9" set="yes">Eight-Burst Nebula</A> and the Southern 
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060625.html" linkindex="10">Ring Nebula</A>, the glowing gas originated in the 
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010301.html" linkindex="11">outer layers</A> of a star like our 
<A href="http://www.nineplanets.org/sol.html" linkindex="12">Sun</A>.  
In this
<A href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/1998/39/supplemental.html" linkindex="13">representative
color picture</A>, the hot blue pool of light seen surrounding this 
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap970219.html" linkindex="14">binary system</A> 
is energized by the hot surface of the faint star. 
Although 
<A href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1998/39/image/a/" linkindex="15">photographed to explore</A> unusual symmetries, it's the asymmetries that 
help make this 
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/planetary_nebulae.html" linkindex="16">planetary nebula</A> so intriguing.  
Neither the unusual shape of the surrounding cooler shell nor the structure and 
placements of the cool filamentary 
<A href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020703.html" linkindex="17">dust lanes</A> running across 
<A href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/1998/39/index.html" linkindex="18">NGC 3132</A>
are well understood.
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