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Symbiotic Star Blows Bubbles into Space – Panel 4

A few thousand years after the bubbles expand into space, the white dwarf goes through another nova outburst and makes another pair of bubbles, which form a distinctive hourglass shape.

Date
Jan 1, 1999
Mission
Hubble Space Telescope
Archive ID
hubblesite-images-1999-32-870-image
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A few thousand years after the bubbles expand into space, the white dwarf goes through another nova outburst and makes another pair of bubbles, which form a distinctive hourglass shape.

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