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Hydrogen shell detected around Nova Persei 1901 may be a planetary nebula

Using NASA's SPHEREx space telescope, astronomers have observed remnants of the eruption of Nova Persei 1901. As a result, they detected a bipolar molecular hydrogen shell around this nova, which may be a large planetary nebula. The finding was detailed in a paper published March 13 on the arXiv pre...

Hydrogen shell detected around Nova Persei 1901 may be a planetary nebula
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Using NASA's SPHEREx space telescope, astronomers have observed remnants of the eruption of Nova Persei 1901. As a result, they detected a bipolar molecular hydrogen shell around this nova, which may be a large planetary nebula. The finding was detailed in a paper published March 13 on the arXiv pre-print server.

Originally published at Phys.org

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