The red spider nebula | Beauty of space with Hubble space telescope

This is a image taken by hubble space telescope. This is the red spider nebula. Huge waves are formed in this two-lobed nebula in the constellation Sagittarius, located 3000 light-years away. This heated planetary nebula is home to one of the hottest stars known to science, and its tremendous stellar winds create waves 100 billion kilometres high. Supersonic shocks develop when the nearby gas is compressed and heated in front of the rapidly expanding lobes, causing the waves. The stunning radiation visible in this photograph is emitted by the atoms caught in the shock.

Hubble telescope is named after Edwin Hubble. Hubble captures detailed images of celestial objects such as planets, stars, and galaxies. Hubble has collected over one million observations. These include detailed images of star birth and death, galaxies billions of light years away, and comet fragments colliding with Jupiter's atmosphere. It is used for astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, chemistry and atomic physics research.

Pic credit ESA & Garrelt Mellema (Leiden University, the Netherlands)

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