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A Rare Time-Lapse Video of a Dying Star
The Hubble Telescope has captured rare photos of a dying star. These images are so astounding they will amaze you.. Take a look!!!
The Death of A Star
The Hubble Telescope is celebrating its 26th birthday, and has given us hundreds of thousands of images. These pictures have helped scientists unlock many of the mysteries of the universe. Now it has also given us a spectacular video of a rare dying star.
The telescope captured these close-up images of an enormous star named V838 Moncerotis, located over 20,000 lightyears from Earth. The long dead star emitted a powerful flash of light that illuminated the dust and gas that surrounded it as it died. The Hubble Telescope was lucky enough to record this process from 2002 to 2006 as the star's light reached Earth.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
A GIF of the death of V838.
Astronomers React
With the death of V838, it is giving astronomers a rare look at the death of a star. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, nothing lasts forever. Columbia University astrophysicist, Caleb Scharf in a recent essay explained that long after you and I are dead, the light reflected off our faces today will still be traveling through space, ever growing fainter but still there. Just like the lights of distant stars that died eons ago.
I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.
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