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NASA's Hubble Sees Unexplained Brightness from Colossal Explosion

This isn’t an explosion, but an echo! In this timelapse of Hubble images, a burst of light from the bizarre star V838 Monocerotis is spreading into space and reflecting off of surrounding shells of dust. V838 Monocerotis is located about 20,000 light-years away. Music credit: “Tale of Time,” Markus Gleissner [BMI], KTSA Publishing, Universal Production Music #NASA #Hubble #light #space #science #stars #astronomy #universe #cosmos #telescope | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope

The Crab Nebula is an expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion! 💥 Located about 6,500 light-years away, the orange filaments are the tattered remains of the star and consist mostly of hydrogen. Like a lighthouse, the neutron star embedded at the nebula’s center produces twin beams of radiation. From Earth, it appears to pulse 30 times a second due to the neutron star’s rotation sweeping the beams across our line of sight. It has the mass equivalent of our Sun crammed into a rapidly spi