Hubble captures AG Carinae on the edge of destruction
Channel: Absolute Cosmos
Date: 2021-04-26

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned 31 this year. To mark the event, astronomers aimed the renowned observatory at a brilliant “celebrity star,” a luminous blue variable (LBV) star called AG Carinae. The star appears surrounded by a huge shell of material that it blew into space thousands of years ago. That shell, called a nebula, is 5 light-years wide, about the distance from Earth to the nearest star beyond our sun, Alpha Centauri. 
Read more: https://www.space.com/hubble-photograph-fast-burning-star-nebula
#NASA #ESA  #absolutecosmos #HST #cosmology #astronomy #stars #LBVstars #AGCarinae #thecosmicstudio