NEBULA

Ian, Adam, And Olivia

April 2010

A nebula is a cloud of
gas and dust in outer
What is a space. This is created
by a supernova(when a
nebula? star dies). Nebulae
clouds go across many
light years.

Basic Types of Nebulae

Emission Nebulae: As these
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reflects the light of the sun. where we
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Planetary Nebulae: This nebulae
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it dies. It expands to giant size and
then begins to shrink, when it shrinks
it sheds layers away, leaving this
nebulae. Nebulae may have been discovered by the Mayans. The first true
nebula was mentioned by Abd, al-Rahman al-Sufi.
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Pieresc discovered the Orion Nebula
while using a telescope in 1618. Simon Mayr discovered one of
the earliest nebulae called “Little Cloud”
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