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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 “living on the edge.”

The image captured of AG Carinae, which you can see…

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