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A young multipolar planetary nebula in the making—IRAS 21282+5050

Zhang, Yong; Kwok, Sun; Hsia, Chih-Hao +1 more

We present high-angular-resolution Hubble Space Telescope (HST) optical and near-infrared imaging of the compact planetary nebula (PN) IRAS 21282+5050. Optical images of this object reveal several complex morphological structures including three pairs of bipolar lobes and an elliptical shell lying close to the plane of the sky. From near-infrared …