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原文:
It’s the dim star, not the bright one, near the center of NGC 3132 that created this odd but beautiful planetary nebula. Nicknamed the Eight-Burst Nebula and the Southern Ring Nebula, the glowing gas originated in the outer layers of a star like our Sun. In this representative color picture, the hot blue pool of light seen surrounding this binary system is energized by the hot surface of the faint star. Although photographed to explore unusual symmetries, it’s the asymmetries that help make this planetary nebula so intriguing. Neither the unusual shape of the surrounding cooler shell nor the structure and placements of the cool filamentary dust lanes running across NGC 3132 are well understood.
中文翻譯:
這顆星系NGC 3132中位於中心附近的暗淡星星，創造了這個奇特而美麗的行星狀星雲。被暱稱為八子星雲（Eight-Burst Nebula）和南環星雲（Southern Ring Nebula），其發光氣體源於類似我們太陽的恆星的外層。在這張代表性彩色圖片中，環繞著這個雙星系的熱藍色光暈是由暗淡星星的高溫表面所激發。雖然這張照片是為了探討不尋常的對稱性，但正是這些不對稱性使得這個行星狀星雲變得如此迷人。周圍較冷的外殼的奇特形狀，以及在NGC 3132上運行的涼爽的纖維狀塵埃帶的結構和位置，仍然沒有得到很好的理解。
#八子星雲 #南環星雲 #NGC3132 #行星狀星雲 #太空之美 #天文學 #宇宙探索 #天空之謎 #星際奇觀 #天文攝影
來源:NASA每日圖片
