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http://www.universetoday.com/2007/08/15 … ts-a-star/
Mira is an older, red giant star shedding massive amounts of material into space. As the star moves quickly through interstellar space, the particles slow down, and remain as a long tail stretching behind. In fact, this tail is 13 light-years long, or 20,000 times the average distance of Pluto from the Sun.
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http://www.universetoday.com/2007/08/15 … ts-a-star/
Mira is an older, red giant star shedding massive amounts of material into space. As the star moves quickly through interstellar space, the particles slow down, and remain as a long tail stretching behind. In fact, this tail is 13 light-years long, or 20,000 times the average distance of Pluto from the Sun.
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Wow! That's amazing.
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I love the visible "bow shock" as the star plows through the interstellar medium.
Here's the associated paper ...
A turbulent wake as a tracer of 30,000 years of Mira's mass loss history
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v4 … 06003.html
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I think there was a similar image of a galaxy in space.com some time ago...
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