Breathtaking New Hubble Image Shows a Giant Star on The Brink of Annihilation

[Warpy]

The spectacle of space has our jaws constantly dropping, and the picture that was just released to celebrate 31 years of the Hubble Space Telescope is another incredibly powerful shot that we could gaze at for hours.

It shows the giant, ultra-bright star AG Carinae, 20,000 light-years away from Earth, in a phase that makes it a Luminous Blue Variable (LBV) – where massive stars such as this one go through thousands of years of instability and varying luminosity.
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What you can see around AG Carinae is a gigantic nebula, an expanding shell of gas and dust, around five light-years wide – that's the same distance from our planet to Alpha Centauri, our next nearest star, to give you a sense of scale.

https://www.sciencealert.com/breathtaking-new-hubble-image-shows-a-giant-star-on-the-edge-of-annihilation

[Blue Owl]

1. Let's call it the AG Donald Trump

[HUAJIAO]

2. Astounding photo and scale to try to contemplate...

[yonder]

4. +1.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. For a second there, I thought there were talking about eta Carinae ...

... which has erupted spectacularly in the historic past, and could do so again "any day now".

https://www.universetoday.com/tag/great-eruption/

[calimary]

5. Sheesh!

Astounding!

[Judi Lynn]

6. What calimary said.

Thank you for the image.