The Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star
This image, taken by NASA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful last hurrah of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star remaining core.
- Date
- 2007-02-13
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL/STScI/AURA
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"The Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star" (2007-02-13). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL/STScI/AURA. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA09194Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 17666.
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