Luminous Blue Variable: Destined To Be a Supernova?
Tipped toward Earth and illuminated by the star, these rings look like ellipses in images taken with NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. The massive star at the center, which lies within the constellation Sagittarius, is about 7,200 light-years from Earth.
- Date
- 2007-01-26
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC Berkeley
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
Public domainsafest
Reason: a NASA work: not copyrighted in the United States.
Read from: NASA media usage guidelines: NASA material is not copyrighted in the US unless noted; no third-party credit or mark found.
Credit line
"Luminous Blue Variable: Destined To Be a Supernova?" (2007-01-26). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UC Berkeley. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA09119Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 15116.
More like this
Peony Nebula Star Settles for Silver Medal
2008-07-15 · NASA Image and Video Library
Bubbly Little Star
2007-11-08 · NASA Image and Video Library
Speedster Star Shocks the Galaxy
2014-02-20 · NASA Image and Video Library
Ring of Stellar Fire
2014-10-22 · NASA Image and Video Library
Hubble Sees a Star Set to Explode
2017-12-08 · NASA Image and Video Library
Into the Depths of the Lagoon Nebula
2011-09-16 · NASA Image and Video Library
The King of Rings Artist Concept
2009-10-07 · NASA Image and Video Library
In the Blackest Night, a Green Ring Nebula
2011-06-15 · NASA Image and Video Library