| Revision for Dragonfly Planetary Nebula | ||
| Previous Revision, by LCU No Fool Like One [2026-02-26 04:59:39] | → | Selected revision, by CMDR Marx [2026-02-26 12:08:50] |
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| NAME | ||
| The DragonFly Nebula | → | Dragonfly Planetary Nebula |
| SYSTEMNAME | ||
| Eoch Flyuae UU-O e6-2971 | → | Eoch Flyuae UU-O e6-2971 |
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| Nebulae | → | Nebulae |
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| REGION | ||
| Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm | → | Inner Scutum-Centaurus Arm |
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| SUMMARY | ||
| A colourful nebula with a high mass neutron star at its heart. | → | A colourful nebula with a high mass neutron star at its heart. |
| DESCRIPTION | ||
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The Dragonfly Nebula is a tiny planetary nebula with a neutron star at its heart. Like most such nebulae, there is not really much to see from inside and the only object of interest is the water world.
However there are plenty of local systems from which you can get a good view such as from the rings of the earthlike world at Eoch Flyuae SV-B d14-8835 The neutron star at the center of the nebular is close to the TOV limit, at a hair over 2.5 solar masses, but it is still outside its swarzchild radius. There is not enough mass in the system to tip it over into a black hole if it were all to fall to the surface of the star, so the nebula is safe for now. | → | The Dragonfly Nebula is a tiny planetary nebula with a neutron star at its heart. Like most such nebulae, there is not really much to see from inside and the only object of interest in the system is a water world. However, there are plenty of local systems from which you can get a good view such as from the rings of the Earth-like world at Eoch Flyuae SV-B d14-8835.
At over 2.5 solar masses, the neutron star at the center of the nebula is close to the TOV limit, the upper mass limit over which it would collapse into a black hole. It is also still outside its Schwarzschild radius, which is the radial limit to the same collapse. There is not enough mass in the system to tip it over into a black hole if it were all to fall to the surface of the star, so the nebula is safe for now. |
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