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It depends on what you are willing to admit to. A planetary nebula is a shell of gas that is doing its very best to get away from its parent star so, at some point, I believe that it is only proper we allow the divorce to finalize. Now while the gas is still being illuminated by the parent star's light into a observable display I believe there is a case for the association to continue.

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