Hubble Captures the Galaxy's Biggest Ongoing Stellar Fireworks Show

Imagine slow-motion fireworks that started exploding 170 years ago and are still continuing. This type of firework is not launched into Earth’s atmosphere, but rather into space by a doomed super-massive star called Eta Carinae. A new Hubble view, which includes ultraviolet light, shows its hot, expanding gases glowing in red, white and blue.


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Source: NASA Goddard Center