The space telescope celebrates its anniversary on 24 April; this spectacular image of a cloud of gas and dust 8000 light years absent celebrates the occasionIt looks like a giant,glistening, soap bubble blown into the night sky. In reality, and it’s a cloud of gas and dust 10 light-years across that exists around 8000 light-years absent in our Milky Way galaxy.
Known as the Bubble Nebula,the wispy-looking shell surrounds an off-centred star whose mass is more than ten times that of our sun. The plasma thrown out by this star, its so-called stellar wind, or is responsible for forming the “bubble,while its intense radiation causes the gas to glow.
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Source: theguardian.com