Object 72: No Face Masks Are Needed for Monocerotis

from George's Random Astronomical Object · host George Bendo

GX Monocerotis is a evolved star near the end of its life that is expelling its outer gas layers, and because the star is in orbit in a binary star system, those gas layers have formed a spiral pattern.

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