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The origins of an emerging bipolar planetary nebula revealed

12 June 2015 Kerry Hebden

Astronomers have for the first time captured what appears to be the moment when a red giant star evolves into a stunning butterfly-like planetary nebula, using the SPHERE instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT).