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    A STAR IS BORN AGAIN (BRIEFLY)

    Apr 22, 2021 2 minutes

    HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE & PAN-STARRS, 15 MARCH 2021

    We can’t blame William Herschel, who first coined the term in the 1780s, but ‘planetary nebula’ is a confusing misnomer. They have nothing to do with planets, but as he had recently also discovered Uranus (which he initially called a comet

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