Giant iron bar found in the Ring Nebula may be a destroyed planet

Using the new LIFU technology on the William Herschel Telescope, researchers have detected a massive iron cloud.

Have you ever seen a cloud made of iron? You may not believe it, but deep inside a nebula that astronomers have studied for centuries, researchers have uncovered a massive bar-shaped cloud made almost entirely of iron atoms.
This glowing shell of gas… [4056 chars]

Source: Interesting Engineering | Published: 2026-01-18T10:26:38Z

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