{"id":226288,"date":"2025-12-02T00:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/bipolar-planetary-nebula-reveals-rare-open-cluster-association"},"modified":"2025-12-02T00:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:39:07","slug":"bipolar-planetary-nebula-reveals-rare-open-cluster-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/bipolar-planetary-nebula-reveals-rare-open-cluster-association","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar planetary nebula reveals rare open cluster association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bipolar-planetary-nebula-reveals-rare-open-cluster-association2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By analyzing the data from the SuperCOSMOS H\u03b1 Survey (SHS) and from the Gaia satellite, astronomers have inspected a bipolar planetary nebula designated PHR J1724-3859. Results of the study, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2511.15115\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> Nov. 19 on the <i>arXiv<\/i> pre-print server, deliver crucial insights into the properties of this nebula.<\/p>\n<p>Planetary nebulae (PNe) are the final stages of evolution of low-to-intermediate mass stars. They are expanding shells of gas and dust that have been ejected from a star during the process of its evolution from a main sequence star into a red giant or white dwarf. PNe are relatively rare, but important for astronomers studying the chemical evolution of stars and galaxies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By analyzing the data from the SuperCOSMOS H\u03b1 Survey (SHS) and from the Gaia satellite, astronomers have inspected a bipolar planetary nebula designated PHR J1724-3859. Results of the study, published Nov. 19 on the arXiv pre-print server, deliver crucial insights into the properties of this nebula. Planetary nebulae (PNe) are the final stages of evolution [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}