Thursday, October 11, 2012

Spiral Shell Sheds Light on Red Giant Star's Recent Convulsive History: Scientific American Gallery

Spiral Shell Sheds Light on Red Giant Star's Recent Convulsive History: Scientific American Gallery:

"As stars age, they often shed their skins, so to speak, casting off expansive shells of dust and gas into interstellar space. A new look at the shell surrounding a type of aging star called a red giant shows that the star's ejected husk carries in its structure the imprint of its formation and subsequent evolution."

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