R Aquarii (Symbiotic Binary) Tapestry Phone case gas and dust are combining

gas and dust are combining to produce a new generation of stars

distance and proper motions — of more than one billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy

they have cast off layers of gas periodically over the past couple thousand years

Gripped in the claw of the constellation Scorpius sits the reflection nebula DG 129

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R Aquarii (Symbiotic Binary) Tapestry Phone case gas and dust are combiningThis image reveals a dramatic binary star system named R Aquarii, located 700 light years from Earth, as seen in 2012 by ESOs Very Large Telescope (VLT). R Aquarii is a so called symbiotic binary, comprising two stars surrounded by a large, dynamic cloud of gas (a nebula). Systems like this contain two stars in an unequal and complex relationship. R Aquarii is made up of one hot white dwarf and one red giant. The red giant is losing matter to its