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The Crystal Ball Nebula, NGC 1514, as photographed with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii. At the center of the nebula is a binary system of two stars, shaped by the envelope of gas ejected from one of them in the final stages of its life. Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA.

Gemini Telescope Reveals Crystal Ball Nebula: Light from a Dying Star That Began Its Journey to Us About 1,500 Years Ago

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A new image of NGC 1514 from the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii reveals an asymmetric envelope of gas around a two-star system, showing a late stage in the life of a Sun-like star.
Astronomers have found water vapor in the disk around a young star right where planets are likely to form. In this image, the new observations from the ESO partner Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) show the water vapor in shades of blue. Near the center of the disc, where the young star lives, the environment is hotter and the gas is brighter. The red rings are previous ALMA observations showing the distribution of dust around the star.Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Facchini et al.

Astronomers discover a new connection between water and the formation of planets

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An amount of water at least three times greater than the water in all the Earth's oceans was discovered in the inner disk of the young Sun-like star HL Tauri, 450 light-years away from Earth, in the Taurus group
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