Bibcode
                                    
                            Köppen, Joachim; Day-Jones, Avril C.; Napiwotzki, Ralf; Corradi, R. L. M.; Jones, David; Rauch, Thomas; Miszalski, Brent; Boffin, Henri M. J.
    Bibliographical reference
                                    Science, Volume 338, Issue 6108, pp. 773- (2012).
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                            Description
                                    Stars are generally spherical, yet their gaseous envelopes often appear
nonspherical when ejected near the end of their lives. This quirk is
most notable during the planetary nebula phase, when these envelopes
become ionized. Interactions among stars in a binary system are
suspected to cause the asymmetry. In particular, a precessing accretion
disk around a companion is believed to launch point-symmetric jets, as
seen in the prototype Fleming 1. Our finding of a
post-common-envelope binary nucleus in Fleming 1 confirms that
this scenario is highly favorable. Similar binary interactions are
therefore likely to explain these kinds of outflows in a large variety
of systems.
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