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Necklace Nebula
The Necklace Nebula (PN G054.2-03.4) is a 12-trillion-mile-wide ( light-year-wide)〔 planetary nebula located about 15,000 light-years away in the northern constellation Sagitta. It was discovered in 2005 from the Isaac Newton Telescope Photometric H-alpha Survey (IPHAS), a ground-based H-alpha planetary nebula study of the North Galactic Plane. 〔(Hubble Offers a Dazzling View of the 'Necklace' Nebula ), news release STScI-2011-24 dated August 11, 2011, from Space Telescope Science Institute〕
The Necklace Nebula is the exploded aftermath of a giant star that came too close to its Sun-like binary companion. The two stars that produced the Necklace Nebula are in a relatively small orbit about each other. They have a period of 1.2 days and a separation on the order of 5 times the radius of the Sun.
About 10,000 years ago one of the aging stars ballooned to the point where it engulfed its companion star. The smaller star continued orbiting inside its larger companion, increasing the giant’s rotation rate.
The bloated companion star spun so fast that a large part of its gaseous envelope expanded into space. Due to centrifugal force, most of the gas escaped along the star’s equator, producing a ring. The embedded bright knots are dense gas clumps in the ring. 〔(Hubble Offers a Dazzling 'Necklace' ), NASA press release dated August 11, 2011.This article incorporates public domain text from this US government website.〕
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