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Old 06-September-2006, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by aurora View Post
Doesn't a star turn into a white dwarf after it creates a planetary nebula? where's the planetary nebula if this happened recently?
Planetary nebulae last only a few tens of thousands of years. According to the article, the white dwarf is 60 million years old--so the planetary nebula that arose when it was born is long gone.
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