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The star in the center of the Egg Nebula is casting away shells of gas and dust as it slowly transforms itself into a white dwarf star. A thick torus of dust now surrounds the star through which the shell gas is escaping. Newly expelled gas shells escape in the beams shown.
Image courtesy of Space Telescope Science Institute. |
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