Sydney Girls High students help confirm Planetary Nebula
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Originally Posted by Sydney Morning Herald
Ten senior students from Sydney Girls High School are soon to become published scientists after helping academic researchers confirm that a little-studied object called K 1-6 is a rare type of planetary nebula – a cloud of gas formed by a dying star.
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The $2.4 million Space to Grow program, which is funded by the Australian Research Council, gives about 7000 students and 200 teachers from 40 schools remote access to the Faulkes telescopes in Hawaii and Coonabarabran.
