Red giant star is blowing strange smoke rings as it is about to die

Two telescopes charted the structure of a star about to die in unprecedented detail.

"The end state of stellar evolution — when stars undergo the transition from being red giants to ending up as white dwarf stellar remnants — is a complex process that is not well understood," added Morris.

Four of the European Southern Observatory's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array antennas gaze up at the night sky. Milky Way is visible at left. The hourglass-like clouds are not quite new to science, as astronomers spotted such phenomena before in stars shedding atmospheres, like within the Southern Crab Nebula.

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