Tags: Star.

W43A or IRAS 18450-0148 is a late-type star with an envelope of OH/IR type with a magnetically collimated jet (a protoplanetary nebula). The dying star is in its earliest stage of becoming a planetary nebula a process that will take several thousand years.

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