Nuclear ashes and outflow in the eruptive star Nova Vul 1670

@article{Kamiski2015NuclearAA,  title={Nuclear ashes and outflow in the eruptive star Nova Vul 1670},  author={Tomasz Kamiński and Karl M. Menten and Romuald Tylenda and Marcin Hajduk and Nimesh A. Patel and Alex Kraus},  journal={Nature},  year={2015},  volume={520},  pages={322-324},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4449518}}
It is reported that CK Vul is surrounded by chemically rich molecular gas in the form of an outflow, as well as dust, revealing that CK Vul's composition was strongly enhanced by the nuclear ashes of hydrogen burning.

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