One of nature's masterpieces unfolds ⁣

 One of nature's masterpieces unfolds ⁣:

Taken by @NASAHubble, an expanding halo of light around a distant star named V838 Monocreotis. Located about 20,000 light-years away from Earth at the outer edge of the Milky Way Galaxy. The expanding illumination of never-before-seen spirals of dust is called a light echo. These swirls are likely caused by the dust and gas that are being ejected from the red supergiant star in a previous explosion. During that event, the star became 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun. Astronomers have observed that the star will continue to change as the pulse of illumination continues to expand at the speed of light. ⁣

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Image description: A supergiant red star at the center of the image beaming with streaks of red light. Fuzzy tan colored gas and dust is surrounding the red star in a circular formation. Bright white stars with beams of light are surrounding the background of the image and around the gas and dust in the darkness of space.⁣

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Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)⁣

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11 January 2024