Twin Jet Nebula, Brandon Pimenta

Twin Jet Nebula

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Edit: Just found out this was already done here. Bah.

http://www.astrobin.com/46280/

The Twin Jet Nebula (Minkowski 2-9) is a planetary nebula in the constellation Ophiuchus discovered in 1947. The cause of the bipolar structure is probably simply a torus of dust and gas that directs the powerful stellar wind ejected by the central red giant into the two different directions. But that is just me speaking my mind. I am not an astrophysicist.

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Red: hst_06502_02_wfpc2_f673n_wf

Green: hst_06502_02_wfpc2_f656n_wf

Blue: hst_06502_02_wfpc2_f631n_wf

Data from August 7, 1997 from Hubble Legacy Archive.

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Twin Jet Nebula, Brandon Pimenta