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Symbiotic Star Blows Bubbles into Space – Panel 4 — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

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Symbiotic Star Blows Bubbles into Space – Panel 4

August 24, 1999 · NASA

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A few thousand years after the bubbles expand into space, the white dwarf goes through another nova outburst and makes another pair of bubbles, which form a distinctive hourglass shape.