God's Eye
The Helix Nebula also formed and was called the eye of the god.
NASA's Spitzer Infrared Telescope has identified a dusty disk at the center of the nebula formed from collisions of solid objects such as possible comet nuclei. The outer layers of the central star blasted into space should have swept the surrounding dust. However, the Spitzer telescope detected the presence of dense dust forming a disk at a distance of 35-150 Astronomical units from the star. Astronomers think that this dust is the remnant of the collision of solid bodies, such as those in the Kuiper belt at the outer limits of our Solar System. If massive planets once orbited the original star, now a white dwarf, it is thought likely that their orbits were confused as the star lost mass by releasing its outer layers into space, which confused the Kuiper Belt counterpart in the Helix, resulting in a relatively large number of collisions.
Helix Nebula, NGC 7293
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Cinema 4D
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