Astronomers Capture Stellar Winds (VIDEO)
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Professor Leen Decin (KU Leuven) discusses how her team discovered an explanation for the mesmerising shapes of planetary nebulae. Their discovery is based on an extraordinary set of observations of stellar winds around ageing stars. The team found that stellar winds have a shape similar to that of planetary nebulae and concluded that interaction with an accompanying star or exoplanet shapes both the stellar winds and planetary nebulae.
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KU Leuven
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