Google is your friend: http://www.google.com/search?q=M57
M57 is an example of a planetary nebula, Herb. The expanding outer
atmosphere of gas was "puffed off" the convulsing red giant star before
it shrunk down to an earth-sized white dwarf. The central white dwarf
star is so hot that UV "illuminates" the expanding bubble of gas. Here
are other examples of planetary nebulae.
http://images.google.com/images?q=planetary%20nebulae
How do YOU know that's what it looked like a million years ago, Herb.
The fact is you don't!
When will it lose this ring shape? When will you sam
> answer this simple question?
I take it you are unwilling or incapable of finding out anything
on your own. Is that right Herb.
Sam do not go to Google all the time. Be
> your own thinker. It takes time and lots of thinking,butyou must try
> Bert
>
Don't be so stoooopid, Herb!
> > your own thinker. It takes time and lots of thinking,butyou must try
> > Bert
>
> Don't be so stoooopid, Herb!
You missed a few o's.
You mean he wasn't really asking a question? You mean his
"question" was just a vehicle for insults?
Astronomers use spectra and Doppler to measure velocity of the components.
You should take an introductory astronomy course, Herb. Ignorance is
correctable.
See equation three (3)
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/DopplerEffect.html
Where λo is a spectral line of an excited atom in the object being
study.
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