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What is the difference between a planetary nebula and a nebula?
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November 13, 2007 12:06AM
A nebula is a large cloud of gas in space, a planetary nebula is the large cloud of expanding superheated gas caused by the explosion of a red giant or other very large, very hot star.
Neither have anything to do with planets.
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