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- PLANETARY NEBULA
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- Expanding, gaseous spheres moving away from a dying star, usually a red giant. The nebula has been ionized by the
- remnants of its central star, thus being an emission nebula.
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- The Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra is very typical planetary nebula.í
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- The term planetary nebula was coined by the German-English astronomer, William Herschel (1730 - 1822), as they
- reminded him faintly of planets. He wrongly assumed that planetary nebulae develop into stars. More than 1,600
- planetary nebulae have already been discovered in our Galaxy, but the total number is presumed to be twenty times
- greater.
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