What does PN stand for?

Planetary Nebula

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

Other Resources:

<< Previous	Abbreviation Database Surfer		Next >>
Peripheral Neuropathy Personal Needs Petitioner Name Petri Net Phase Noise (communication systems) Philippine Navy Piedmont and Northern Railway Company Pinot Noir (wine) Pitcairn Island (top level domain) Planet Namek		Platoon (Canadian/British) Play Nice (gaming) Pneumonic Poikiloderma with Neutropenia Polemiko Nautiko (Greek Navy) Police Nationale (French: National Police) Polish Notation (aka prefix notation) Polska Norma (Polish: Polish Standard) Pordenone (Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy) Position Navigation

Samples in periodicals archive:

jpg" alt="Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302.

Hubble telescope captures universe photos as never before (PHOTOS)

Nearly jumping the fence again is the planetary nebula NGC 3515, situated just 26' east of the constellation Musca.

Circinus a handy tool

It recalls those of the Helix planetary nebula, whose blue centre surrounded by white clouds earned it the nickname 'the eye of God'.

Hand of God

The Milky Way is littered with such colorful celestial corpses, dubbed planetary nebula.

On the trail of dead planets: dust ring around a white dwarf

Gradual mass change occurs when a star becomes a giant star and ejects a planetary nebula, leaving behind a lower mass white dwarf.

Effect of instantaneous and gradual mass loss on planetary orbits

Betty Kwong CAPTION(S): 4 Photos Photo: (1--Color) The Trifid Nebula (2--Color) The Helix Planetary Nebula (3--Color) no caption (Too Hot spoon) (4--Color) no caption (Pokemon Punch Red Rolls)

HOT TIPS : SPACE, THE FINAL FRONTIER

A second image shows a nearby dying star - a planetary nebula called NGC 4361 - which has outer layers that expand outward in the rare form of four jets.

NASA's Spitzer sees the cosmos through 'warm' infrared eyes

It recalls those of the Helix planetary nebula, whose blue centre surrounded by white clouds earned it the nickname 'the eye of God'.

Hand of God