20 Years of Hubble Photos Show how the Stingray Nebula is Fading

20 Years of Hubble Photos Show how the Stingray Nebula is Fading
By Paul M. Sutter

The Stingray Nebula is the youngest known planetary nebula. For half a century astronomers have witnessed its formation, and now they’ve noticed something strange: it’s fading away. “This is very, very dramatic, and very weird,” said Martín A. Guerrero of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada, Spain, one of the co-authors of a …

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December 7, 2020 at 06:32AM
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