File:BD+30-3639- Chandra Discovers Elusive "Hot Bubble" in Planetary Nebula (2000-pne - bd hst).tiff

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X-ray image of the Planetary Nebula BD+30 3639. The Chandra image shows a hot bubble of 3 million degree Celsius gas surrounding a dying, Sun-like star that is about 5000 light years from Earth.

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English: X-ray image of the Planetary Nebula BD+30 3639. The Chandra image shows a hot bubble of 3 million degree Celsius gas surrounding a dying, Sun-like star that is about 5000 light years from Earth. The distance across the bubble is roughly 100 times the diameter of our solar system. A planetary nebula (so called because it looks like a planet when viewed with a small telescope) is formed when a dying red giant star puffs off its outer layer, leaving behind a hot core that will eventually collapse to form a dense star called a white dwarf. According to theory, a "hot bubble" is formed when a new, two million mile per hour wind emanating from the hot core rams into the ejected atmosphere and heats the interaction region to temperatures of millions of degrees. We are seeing the nebula about a thousand years after it formed.
Date 6 June 2000 (upload date)
Source BD+30-3639: Chandra Discovers Elusive "Hot Bubble" in Planetary Nebula
Author NASA/RIT/J.Kastner et al.
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Also Known As
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Campbell's Star
Category
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White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulas
Color Code
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Intensity
Constellation
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Cygnus
Coordinates (J2000)
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RA 19h 34m 45.20s
Distance Estimate
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5,000 light years
Observation Date(s)
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March 21, 2000
Observation ID(s)
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587
Observation Time
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5 hours
References
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J. Kastner et al. (AAS 196, #43.03)
Scale
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Image is 6.6 arcsec across.
Instruments
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ACIS
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Chandra X-ray Observatory
Credit and attribution belongs to the Chandra X-ray Center, NASA/SAO/Penn State University/MIT

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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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