Hubble Grabs a Colorful Photo of a Rare Star on the Verge of Destruction
In celebration of the 31st anniversary of the launching of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers aimed the observatory at a "celebrity star" that is "waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction." As reported by NASA, this star, called AG Carinae, is one of the brightest stars in the Milky Way and is surrounded by a glowing halo of gas and dust that is the result of it […]