Hubble Has Photographed a Star on the Edge of Destruction – PetaPixel

In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 31st year, NASA astronomers aimed the famed observatory at what is called a “celebrity star,” or one that is one of the brightest in our galaxy. This one, named AG Carinae, is wavering on the edge of self-destruction.
Originally noted by DPReview, the reason AG Carinae is so bright is that its glowing halo of gas and dust is the result of “a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation,” as NASA puts it. The giant visible structure was created from what…

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