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  2. List of stars with resolved images - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of stars with resolved images, that is, stars whose images have been resolved beyond a point source. Aside from the Sun , observed from Earth , stars are exceedingly small in apparent size, requiring the use of special high-resolution equipment and techniques to image.

  3. M2-9 - Wikipedia

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    Its form also resembles the wings of a butterfly. The nebula was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in the 1990s. The primary component of the central binary is the hot core of a star that reached the end of its main-sequence life cycle, ejected most of its outer layers and became a red giant, and is now contracting into a white dwarf. It is ...

  4. Lists of stars - Wikipedia

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    The following are lists of stars. ... List of stars with resolved images; List of supernovae; Solar twins (Solar analogs) Other stars.

  5. Protoplanetary nebula - Wikipedia

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    An interstellar butterfly - protoplanetary nebula Roberts 22 [3] Bujarrabal et al. (2001) [ 4 ] found that the "interacting stellar winds " model of Kwok et al. (1978) [ 5 ] of radiatively-driven winds is insufficient to account for their CO observations of PPN fast winds which imply high momentum and energy inconsistent with that model.

  6. NGC 6302 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 6302 (also known as the Bug Nebula, Butterfly Nebula, or Caldwell 69) is a bipolar planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius.The structure in the nebula is among the most complex ever seen in planetary nebulae.

  7. Butterfly Cluster - Wikipedia

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    The Butterfly Cluster (cataloged as Messier 6 or M6, and as NGC 6405) is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Scorpius. Its name derives from the resemblance of its shape to a butterfly. [5] The first astronomer to record the Butterfly Cluster's existence was Giovanni Battista Hodierna in 1654. [6]

  8. NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 (nicknamed the Butterfly Galaxies [4] or Siamese Twins [NB 1] [5]) are a set of unbarred spiral galaxies about 60 million light-years away [1] in the constellation Virgo. They were both discovered by William Herschel in 1784. They are part of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.

  9. Stellar evolution - Wikipedia

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    Representative lifetimes of stars as a function of their masses The change in size with time of a Sun-like star Artist's depiction of the life cycle of a Sun-like star, starting as a main-sequence star at lower left then expanding through the subgiant and giant phases, until its outer envelope is expelled to form a planetary nebula at upper right Chart of stellar evolution