Nov 16, 2024, 07:08 PM IST
The giant star in the latest Hubble image is battling gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction.
A massive star at the centre is forming and sending out powerful jets, lighting up cavities in the clouds like a lighthouse through storm clouds.
Hubble's image shows NGC 3201, a globular cluster of stars discovered in 1826 by James Dunlop, noted for its size and irregular centre.
This Hubble image shows RS Puppis, a Cepheid variable star that changes brightness by nearly five times every 40 days.
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the first of four photos capturing the light echo from a rare stellar outburst in January 2002.
HH 1 is the bright cloud above the star in the top right, and HH 2 is the cloud in the bottom left. The young star system creating them is hidden in the dust at the centre.
SSTC2D J033038.2+303212 is a young star in Perseus, still forming. It has material being ejected and gas bursts as it evolves.
This image shows R Aquarii, a binary star system 1,000 light-years away. It includes a white dwarf and a red giant, surrounded by a large nebula.
The protostar OH 339.88-1.26, located 8,900 light-years away in Ara, is seen in this Hubble image filled with dark dust and bright stars with diffraction spikes.
The two jets crossing the image are streams of gas ejected from a young star. When they collide with surrounding gas, they clear space and create shock waves, forming Herbig-Haro objects.