by NoelC » Sun Aug 07, 2011 7:13 pm
Without soliciting discredited, far-fetched, or unfounded theories involving aliens or whatever...
How DO mainstream scientists explain the bipolar shapes of these nebulae? This isn't the only one - we've seen that the Ant Nebula, Eta Carinae, Red Spider Nebula, and other bipolar nebulae for example, have a similar hourglass or "two lobed" shape... There are others that happen to be aligned with us that may also be of a bipolar shape... The Ring Nebula and Helix Nebula among others come to mind.
There must be fundamental forces (magnetic? gravitational?) causing these shapes. I'd love to hear more about how they are explained.
We see a documentation from time to time,
such as this page at wikipedia, that claim the exact processes aren't well known.
I'm sure I'm not the only one fascinated by the processes in stars that light up our universe with such beauty.
-Noel
Without soliciting discredited, far-fetched, or unfounded theories involving aliens or whatever...
How DO mainstream scientists explain the bipolar shapes of these nebulae? This isn't the only one - we've seen that the Ant Nebula, Eta Carinae, Red Spider Nebula, and other bipolar nebulae for example, have a similar hourglass or "two lobed" shape... There are others that happen to be aligned with us that may also be of a bipolar shape... The Ring Nebula and Helix Nebula among others come to mind.
There must be fundamental forces (magnetic? gravitational?) causing these shapes. I'd love to hear more about how they are explained.
We see a documentation from time to time, [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_nebula]such as this page at wikipedia[/url], that claim the exact processes aren't well known.
I'm sure I'm not the only one fascinated by the processes in stars that light up our universe with such beauty.
-Noel