Vision of the Sun's Death Throes
"Astrophotographer Bill Snyder captured the Dumbbell Nebula - a cloud of star debris which offers a vision of the death throes of our own solar system.
'All the expanding gas and dust in this image was inside that star,' says Snyder. When sun-like stars die they 'puff' out their outer layers of gas, which form a huge cloud lit up by core of the dead star.
Our own sun will blossom into a similar nebula when it dies in about five billion years."
'All the expanding gas and dust in this image was inside that star,' says Snyder. When sun-like stars die they 'puff' out their outer layers of gas, which form a huge cloud lit up by core of the dead star.
Our own sun will blossom into a similar nebula when it dies in about five billion years."
via dailymail.co.uk
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