NGC 6302: The Tempestuous Life of a Butterfly

NGC 6302: The Tempestuous Life of a Butterfly

NGC 6302 (The Butterfly Nebula) is an extremely energetic and rapidly expanding bipolar planetary nebula (PN). If the central source is a single star, then its apparent location in an H-R diagram places it among the most massive, hottest, and presumably rapidly evolving of all central stars of PNe....

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Main Authors: Bruce Balick, Lars Borchert, Joel H. Kastner, Adam Frank, Eric Blackman, Jason Nordhaus, Paula Moraga Baez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects:
Planetary nebulae
Bipolar nebulae
Ejecta
Stellar wind bubbles
Shocks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acf5ea

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