This Nebula Is Disappearing Absurdly Fast | SciShow News

Over just 20 years, the Stingray nebula has become anywhere from 29 to 900 times dimmer! It could teach us a ton about how nebulas evolve over time, and what happens when everything is going a lot faster than expected.

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Sources:
Paper: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020arXiv200901701B/abstract
Press Release: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/hubble-captures-unprecedented-fading-of-stingray-nebula
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/dwarfs1.html
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http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=SAO+244567
https://spacetelescope.org/news/heic1618/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07113

Images:
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30957
http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Extreme_space/Stingray_Nebula_Henize_1357
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30792
https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1840e/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=30093
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Backyard_photo_of_the_Orion_Nebula.jpg
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20314
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/250718.php
https://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/heic1618a/
https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1531a/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11447