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PHOTO CAPTION: Images of the planetary nebula M 1-16 at millimeter wavelengths. Left: Image of the hot gas of the nebula in the radio continuum at 231.5 GHz. Right: Image of the molecular envelope of the nebula, obtained in the 2-1 transition of the CO molecule at 230 GHz. Note how the molecular gas surrounds the hot ionized core and is disturbed in two prominent lobes along an axis. This is the onset of the shaping of the envelope by a bipolar outflow or double sided jet.
These images were made from observations with the IRAM
interferometer, at Plateau de Bure, France. The image scale is 12
arcseconds on each side. Details of the images and
their interpretation can be found in: The Shaping of
Planetary Nebulae by Bipolar Outflows: The Case of M 1-16, in the
Astrophysical Journal, 544, 889.
PHOTO CREDIT: P.J. Huggins and T. Forveille
FORMAT: GIF color