A dusty pinwheel nebula around the massive star WR104

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6727, 1999, Pages 487-489

  Tuthill, Peter G ^a   Monnier, John D ^a   Danchi, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; DUST; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CANIS;

EID: 0033535511     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/19033     Document Type: Article

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