Frosty Leo Nebula - Characteristics

Characteristics

The Frosty Leo Nebula has two lobes that are separated by 2″ between which is an almost edge-on dust ring. It also has two relatively faint but prominent compact nebulosities, or ansae, separated by ~23″ along the polar axis of the PPN. The PPN as a whole has an hourglass like shape. It has an inclination angle of 15° relative to the plane of the sky. Its molecular envelope is expanding at a rate of ~25 km/s.

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