“We’re able to see the effect of the dying central star in how it’s shedding and shredding its ejected material.”
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Nebulae begin with stars between about 1 to 8 solar masses. Near the end of the star’s life of fusion, the star’s gravity weakens as it loses mass. The star expands into a red giant and begins shedding layers of gas from its atmosphere into space. As those layers travel outward, they’re ionised by ultraviolet radiation from the star buried in the middle of all that beauty. That lights up the shells of gas as they travel away from the star, now called a planetary nebula nucleus.
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