Friday, October 11, 2013

APOD 1.3


Posted on September 15, 2013, this picture displays a magnificent plethora of colors produced from the death of the star. As the star "dies" and transforms into a white dwarf star (a process that takes over a thousand years) it releases outer gaseous envelopes which forms to artistic display shown in the picture. What is also interesting is that there are two stars in the middle orbiting each other with an orbit ten times the size of Pluto's.

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