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  2. Boomerang Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Boomerang Nebula is a protoplanetary nebula [2] located 5,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It is also known as the Bow Tie Nebula and catalogued as LEDA 3074547. [ 3 ] The nebula's temperature is measured at 1 K (−272.15 °C ; −457.87 °F ) making it the coolest natural place currently known in the Universe .

  3. Stellar core - Wikipedia

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    Once a star has converted all the hydrogen in its core into helium, the core is no longer able to support itself and begins to collapse. It heats up and becomes hot enough for hydrogen in a shell outside the core to start fusion. The core continues to collapse and the outer layers of the star expand. At this stage, the star is a subgiant. Very ...

  4. Water Lily Nebula - Wikipedia

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    The Water Lily Nebula, in the southern constellation of Ara, is a pre-planetary nebula also known as IRAS 16594-4656, in the process of developing to a planetary nebula. It was discovered by Bruce Hrivnak and Sun Kwok in 1999. [ 3 ]

  5. Nebula - Wikipedia

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    A nebula that is visible to the human eye from Earth would appear larger, but no brighter, from close by. [6] The Orion Nebula, the brightest nebula in the sky and occupying an area twice the angular diameter of the full Moon, can be viewed with the naked eye but was missed by early astronomers. [7]

  6. List of largest nebulae - Wikipedia

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    emission line nebula The size is likely larger. The paper only describes the maximal distance to the nucleus and not the entire size. nebula around the Teacup galaxy: 363,000 ly (111,000 pc) [20] ionized nebula part of the circumgalactic medium around the Teacup galaxy, illuminated by the AGN: Lyman-alpha blob 1: 300,000 ly (92,000 pc) [21] LαB

  7. Nebular hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The cores range in mass from a fraction to several times that of the Sun and are called protostellar (protosolar) nebulae. [2] They possess diameters of 0.01–0.1 pc (2,000–20,000 AU) and a particle number density of roughly 10,000 to 100,000 cm −3. [a] [35] [37] The initial collapse of a solar-mass protostellar nebula takes around 100,000 ...

  8. R136a1 - Wikipedia

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    In 1960, a group of astronomers working at the Radcliffe Observatory in Pretoria made systematic measurements of the brightness and spectra of bright stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Among the objects cataloged was RMC 136 (Radcliffe observatory Magellanic Cloud catalog number 136), the central "star" of the Tarantula Nebula , which ...

  9. Planetary core - Wikipedia

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    The internal structure of the inner planets. The internal structure of the outer planets. A planetary core consists of the innermost layers of a planet. [1] Cores may be entirely liquid, or a mixture of solid and liquid layers as is the case in the Earth. [2]