Hubble Telescope Surprises Astronomers: Captured Image Unveils Death Of Star

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Astronomers witness a very rare moment when the Hubble Telescope captures the death of a star. It is a spectacular incident that creates a new dimension in the space research.

According to CNN, a red giant star blows out its own outer layers and forms the clouds of dust and gas. The Hubble Telescope beautifully reveals this incident. This cloud of dust and gas is called nebula.

NASA and the ESA or the European Space Agency jointly releases this rare incident, which is discovered by the Hubble Telescope. Usually, astronomers can't experience such incident as it happens "within the blink of an eye". This time the astronomers succeed to observe it.

According to NASA, the said Nebula is called the Calabash Nebula and the technical name of it is "OH 231.8+04.2". The Hubble Telescope points out that the giant star rapidly transforms into a planetary nebula. During this transformation process, it blows out the outer layer of dust and gas.

The released picture of this incident shows that the gas is yellow in color and it was ejected with a speed of 621,371 miles per hour. Sources say that this nebula will turn into a complete planetary nebula over the next thousand years. The image, captured by the Hubble Telescope, unveils some new features.

Another name of the nebula is the "Rotten Egg Nebula". The reason behind this name is it contains a big amount of sulphur that smells like the rotten eggs. ESA says that luckily this incident, unveiled by the Hubble Telescope, resides about "5000 light-years away in the constellation of Puppis".

A good number of nebulae are big in size and previously they got the identity from any diffuse astronomical object, even galaxies had the same identity. Vesto Slipher and Edwin Hubble unveiled the actual identity of the galaxies and introduced people with the true definition of the nebula. Currently, the Hubble Telescope can produce the real fact.