May 18, 2018

The Ant Nebula (Image NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))

An article published in the journal “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society” describes the discovery of laser emissions in the Ant Nebula. A team of astronomers used observations conducted with ESA’s Herschel space observatory to detect a very rare phenomenon connected to a star’s death. It suggests the presence of a binary star system in the heart of the nebula.