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Planetary Nebula NGC 2392: The Radiant Death Of A Star (PHOTO) .badges_v2 .badge_v2_facebook_ipad_app:after {content:'Share';padding-left: 14px;text-align: center;width: 41px;}.badges_v2 .badge_v2_email_ipad_app:after {content:'Email';padding-left: 22px;}.badges_v2 .badge_v2_comments_ipad_app:after {content:'Comment';padding-left: 11px;}.badges_v2 .badge_v2_retweet_ipad_app:after {content:'Tweet';padding-left: 20px;} Get Science Newsletters:Subscribe #news_entries #ad_sharebox_260x60 img {padding:0px;margin:0px} Follow:NASA, NASA Photos, NGC 2392, Death Of Star, Death Of Star Photo, Dying Star, Dying Star Photo, End Of Star's Life, End Of Star's Life Photo, Nasa Star Photos, Nebula, Planetary Nebula Image, Planetary Nebula Photo, Solar System, Space, Science NewsStars burn long and bright, sometimes up to billions of years, so when it comes to the end of their life span, the celestial spheres tend to go out brilliantly.
Planetary nebula NGC 2392, a star located 4,200 light-years from Earth and now in one of its final phases of life, is no exception. This "Eskimo Nebula" meets its death in a radiant blaze of glory in a composite photo released by NASA on Thursday.
So which colors in the image correspond to parts of the nebula? NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory explains in a statement :
This composite image of NGC 2392 contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in purple showing the location of million-degree gas near the center of the planetary nebula. Data from the Hubble Space Telescope show -- colored red, green, and blue -- the intricate pattern of the outer layers of the star that have been ejected.
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The star's core of hydrogen has been completely depleted, so the planetary nebula expands and sheds its outer layers. As National Geographic notes, once the outer layers are cast away, the nebula will become a white dwarf -- a dense stellar remnant of the star's core. Most lower-mass stars follow this life cycle, but some more massive stars blow themselves apart in a violent explosion called a supernova.
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View AllFavorites Recency | Popularity Page: 1 2 3 Next › Last » (3 total) HUFFPOST SUPER USERJune25831 Fans 3 hours ago ( 6:52 PM)Lets hope there wasn't a civilization circling that star 4000 years ago.June25: Lets hope there wasn't a civilization circling that star 4000http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/June25/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268846279.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… HUFFPOST SUPER USERfrank1946Tell the Truth647 Fans 3 hours ago ( 6:16 PM)WOW................Einstein never said it could be so beautiful !Kids enjoy this kind of stuff !
Me too.frank1946: WOW................Einstein never said it could be so beautiful ! Kidshttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/frank1946/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268836438.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation.
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eddtrm148 Fans 3 hours ago ( 6:04 PM)That photo is awesome. When I looked at it, I thought of an "Outer Limits" episode that had a similar photo. Or video.eddtrm: That photo is awesome. When I looked at it, Ihttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/eddtrm/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268832719.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… HUFFPOST SUPER USERCarolinaDemthey DID take the last train for the coast!923 Fans 6 hours ago ( 3:58 PM)I think it's embarassingly unprofessional for professional scientists and science writers to anthropomorphize physical phenomena as if they were assisting non-professionals to 'understand'. If they seriously think the best they can do is to describe the explosive climax of a gravitational accumulation of gas as the 'death' of an entity, then they are both in need of literary education and naive, if not immature, about what the death of living beings really means to others. We could use some decent expository science education for non-scientists, but of course that takes a kind of brains we seem to have in short supply.CarolinaDem: I think it's embarassingly unprofessional for professional scientists and sciencehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/CarolinaDem/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268795561.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USERKiri the Unicornaudio-animatronic amateur astronomer277 Fans 2 hours ago ( 7:04 PM)Relax, it's just a metaphor...Kiri_the_Unicorn: Relax, it's just a metaphor...http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Kiri_the_Unicorn/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268849737.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it palindrom972 Fans 4 minutes ago ( 9:28 PM)People also have objected to the timeworn phrase "stellar evolution" because nothing Darwinian is happening, suggesting "stellar development" in its place.To which the astronomical community replied with a collective "meh".palindrom: People also have objected to the timeworn phrase "stellar evolution"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/palindrom/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268885169.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation.
Loading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… david9876567 Fans 2 hours ago ( 7:46 PM)Carolina, you are wrong: "The study of the birth, life and death of stars is central to the field of astronomy." http://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/how-do-stars-form-and-evolve/david98765: Carolina, you are wrong: "The study of the birth, lifehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/david98765/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268860687.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation.
Loading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… Djay025217th Airborne..a tribute to my Father1132 Fans 6 hours ago ( 3:55 PM)It happened over 4,000 years ago....this is old news HP!Djay0252: It happened over 4,000 years ago....this is old news HP!http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Djay0252/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268794745.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… Synkalae61 Fans 6 hours ago ( 3:52 PM)Hate to tell you, but this happened 4200 years ago.Synkalae: Hate to tell you, but this happened 4200 years ago.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Synkalae/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268793660.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it palindrom972 Fans 12 seconds ago ( 9:32 PM)Astronomers routinely ignore the light-travel time, except when it really matters. If we look out billions of light years, the universe was significantly different when the light left it -- that's important.
And in a fascinating twist, astronomers have found "light echos" from supernovae whose outbursts reached us hundreds of years ago. That's another phenomenon in which the finite speed of light is important.
But for the most part, it's not a big deal, because the overall properties of the Galaxy etc. don't change significantly in a few thousand years. If it wasn't this planetary, it'd be another one.palindrom: Astronomers routinely ignore the light-travel time, except when it reallyhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/palindrom/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268886002.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation.
Loading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… CoasterrTolerance + Education + Technology = Peace264 Fans 6 hours ago ( 3:29 PM)The article didn't mention that some stars last trillions of years and since the age of the universe is only billions of years old that means that the universe is very young.Coasterr: The article didn't mention that some stars last trillions ofhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Coasterr/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268786924.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USERKiri the Unicornaudio-animatronic amateur astronomer277 Fans 3 hours ago ( 6:54 PM)I'm afraid that's incorrect.The lowest-mass stars ("red dwarfs") are *projected* to last trillions of years, according to our current models of stellar evolution. No fully-evolved stars of this class have been observed, as the universe is, as you say, billions of years old.Kiri_the_Unicorn: I'm afraid that's incorrect. The lowest-mass stars ("red dwarfs") arehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Kiri_the_Unicorn/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268846963.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it
CoasterrTolerance + Education + Technology = Peace264 Fans 2 hours ago ( 7:13 PM)What is incorrect?Coasterr: What is incorrect?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Coasterr/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268851962.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them AllLoading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… This user has chosen to opt out of the Badges program Pat Loudoun89 Fans 7 hours ago ( 2:46 PM)I thought this was a story on that guy from Glee.Pat_Loudoun: I thought this was a story on that guy fromhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Pat_Loudoun/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268774480.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… Lenny Newball11 Fans 7 hours ago ( 2:44 PM)How awesome is that picture, am glad we have the ability to see these stellar events. Thank god(LOL) people didn't stop looking up at the stars and questioning what was in the sky.Lenny_Newball: How awesome is that picture, am glad we have thehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Lenny_Newball/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268773707.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it This user has chosen to opt out of the Badges program jfd00138 Fans 7 hours ago ( 2:57 PM)Unfortunately a lot of what used to be visible from Earth is no longer due to irresponsible lighting. I remember as a kid in the 50s seeing the Andromeda galaxy from my back yard in a small city. Now I can't even find it with a small telescope and I live in what's supposed to be a rural area. Check out the Globe at Night project for more informationjfd001: Unfortunately a lot of what used to be visible fromhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/jfd001/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268777708.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it This user has chosen to opt out of the Badges program eddtrm148 Fans 4 hours ago ( 5:53 PM)If you live near Pennsylvania. There is a great place to look at stars. It is called Cherry Springs. My kids camp ther every year with friends. But, you have to go when there is no moon. They say it is the darkest area of PA.eddtrm: If you live near Pennsylvania. There is a great placehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/eddtrm/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268829695.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. There are More Comments on this Thread. 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Loading comments… HUFFPOST SUPER USERSeattleHomeWhat we need is more cowbell799 Fans 7 hours ago ( 2:31 PM)Look, it's the Republican Party.SeattleHome: Look, it's the Republican Party.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/SeattleHome/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268769883.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it Gilc6523 Fans 7 hours ago ( 2:40 PM)That's far too beautiful.Gilc65: That's far too beautiful.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Gilc65/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268772505.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USERSeattleHomeWhat we need is more cowbell799 Fans 7 hours ago ( 2:41 PM)The implosion part. SeattleHome: The implosion part. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/SeattleHome/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268772729.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them AllLoading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… HUFFPOST SUPER USERlambdin1What's this?703 Fans 7 hours ago ( 2:22 PM)We all should be so lucky to die in such a beautiful way!lambdin1: We all should be so lucky to die in suchhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/lambdin1/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268767236.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it robdot8 Fans 7 hours ago ( 3:01 PM)You were born that way.robdot: You were born that way.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/robdot/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268778887.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USERlambdin1What's this?703 Fans 3 hours ago ( 6:06 PM)Yes. We all are star dust!!!lambdin1: Yes. We all are star dust!!!http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/lambdin1/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268833396.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… ProCynicThose that govern intend to be our masters.659 Fans 7 hours ago ( 2:17 PM)When did it actually blow? Did we look at it a year ago and it was just a normal star sitting there and then last week it blew? Or, has it been this way since we first noticed it?ProCynic: When did it actually blow? Did we look at ithttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/ProCynic/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268765712.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it KidSampson244 Fans 7 hours ago ( 2:37 PM)It didn't blow. The hydrogen in its core burned out, causing a layer around the core to begin fusion. That gradually turned it into a red giant as cooler outer layers of hydrogen were pushed away from the center, eventually escaping and forming the nebula you see in the photograph. To blow up in a supernova, it would have had to be quite a bit more massive.KidSampson: It didn't blow. The hydrogen in its core burned out,http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/KidSampson/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268771760.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… Synkalae61 Fans 6 hours ago ( 3:53 PM)4200 years ago.Synkalae: 4200 years ago.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/Synkalae/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268793909.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. There are More Comments on this Thread. Click Here To See them AllLoading comments… Loading comments… Loading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… KingJames2k136 Fans 8 hours ago ( 2:00 PM)If we are all children of the stars, then who created the stars? Supposedly level 3 civilizations can create their own stars, so perhaps another ultra advanced civilization gave birth to our galaxy? Oh so many questions, so many questions...KingJames2k13: If we are all children of the stars, then whohttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/KingJames2k13/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268760452.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it robdot8 Fans 6 hours ago ( 3:02 PM)No one created the stars.robdot: No one created the stars.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/robdot/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268779172.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it liveinhope23My unauthorized autobiography664 Fans 6 hours ago ( 3:11 PM)Thank you for clearing that up for everyoneliveinhope23: Thank you for clearing that up for everyonehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/liveinhope23/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268781685.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… palindrom972 Fans 5 hours ago ( 4:23 PM)It looks very much as if the galaxies and stars were "created" by the action of gravitation on ordinary and dark matter. The small initial density fluctuations that collapsed into galaxies were apparently left over from the inflationary era of the big bang. It's possible that we may never be able to establish what happened before that.palindrom: It looks very much as if the galaxies and starshttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/palindrom/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268802924.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… This user has chosen to opt out of the Badges program whosbinfarteen319 Fans 8 hours ago ( 1:57 PM)Our sun is roughly 4.57 billion years old. In about 6 billion years, our Sun’s core will run out of hydrogen and implode. However we all really know the earth is only 6,000 years old and started with Adam, Eve and a talking snake in a Garden someplace.whosbinfarteen: Our sun is roughly 4.57 billion years old. In abouthttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/whosbinfarteen/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268759681.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USERdennissinnedProgressive but not a Democrat.622 Fans 7 hours ago ( 2:45 PM)Don't forget the dinosaurs. loldennissinned: Don't forget the dinosaurs. lolhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/dennissinned/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268774188.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share it This user has chosen to opt out of the Badges program eddtrm148 Fans 4 hours ago ( 6:00 PM)And Sharks !! There is a place in New Brunswick, Canada where they found a shark fossil that is 418 million years old.eddtrm: And Sharks !! There is a place in New Brunswick,http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/eddtrm/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268831613.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments…This comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation. Loading comments… oneeasyriderE=mc2: From light you exist6391 Fans 7 hours ago ( 2:52 PM)You would be correct if our sun was much larger. Instead, our sun will begin to lose the battle with gravity and condense as it runs out of hydrogen. As the sun condenses pressure increases and temperature rises causing helium to fuse forming carbon, it's final composition as a hot carbon core, or white dwarf.During helium fusion, because the sun burns hotter due to increased pressure at the core, gas at the sun's periphery expands diameter of the sun a million times during the red giant phase. Eventually, as the sun runs out of helium, outer layers of gas simply dissipate or blow away toward outer regions of the solar system, not in an explosive process, but more of a slow steady dissipation over millions of years.oneeasyrider: You would be correct if our sun was much larger.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/oneeasyrider/planetary-nebula-death-star-end-photo_n_3587425_268776147.htmlHistory |Permalink |Share itThis comment has been down-ranked into oblivion. View comment You have not right to carry out this operation or Error this operation.
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