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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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Description	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.
Other versions	JPG version PDF version TIFF version TIFF version
Also Known As InfoField	Campbell's Star
Category InfoField	White Dwarfs & Planetary Nebulas
Color Code InfoField	Intensity
Constellation InfoField	Cygnus
Coordinates (J2000) InfoField	RA 19h 34m 45.20s
Distance Estimate InfoField	5,000 light years
Observation Date(s) InfoField	March 21, 2000
Observation ID(s) InfoField	587
Observation Time InfoField	5 hours
References InfoField	J. Kastner et al. (AAS 196, #43.03)
Scale InfoField	Image is 6.6 arcsec across.
Instruments InfoField	ACIS

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Source	Chandra X-ray Observatory
Credit/Provider	NASA/RIT/J.Kastner et al.
Headline	Hot bubble imaged in planetary nebula.
Author	Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
Copyright holder	http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
Image title	The Chandra image of the planetary nebula BD+30 3639 shows a hot bubble of 3 million degree Celsius gas surrounding a dying, Sun-like star. The distance across the bubble is roughly 100 times the diameter of our solar system. A planetary nebula 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. The hot bubble is thought to be due to the collision of a two million mile per hour wind from the hot core with the ejected red giant atmosphere. We are seeing the nebula about a thousand years after it formed. The odd shape of the bubble is not yet understood.
Short title	Chandra Discovers Elusive "Hot Bubble" in Planetary Nebula
Usage terms	http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/image_use.html
Date and time of data generation	6 June 2000
Exif version	2.21
Image width	555 px
Image height	555 px
Color space	sRGB
Width	555 px
Height	555 px
Pixel composition	RGB
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	300 dpi
Vertical resolution	300 dpi
Bits per component	8 8 8
Date and time of digitizing	10:50, 12 October 2007
Date metadata was last modified	09:35, 11 February 2011
Keywords	BD+30-3639
Contact information	cxcpub@cfa.harvard.edu http://chandra.harvard.edu 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA, 02138 USA 617.496.7941
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