NASA: mira cómo sería la muerte de nuestro Sol

Un espectculo de colores se manifiesta en el espacio, la belleza de la muerte de una estrella muy parecida a nuestro Sol fue compartida por la NASA en su cuenta de Instagram. Se trata de una fotografa tomada por el telescopio espacial Hubble.

La estrella est terminando su vida por despojarse de sus capas exteriores de gas, que forman un capullo alrededor de ncleo restante de ella. La luz ultravioleta de la estrella moribunda hace que la materia brille, explica la NASA en su post de Instagram.

Colorful last hurrah of a star: The Hubble Space Telescope shows off 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 stars remaining core. Ultraviolet light from the dying star makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the center. Our sun will eventually burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion years. The material expelled by the star glows with different colors depending on its composition, its density and how close it is to the hot central star. Blue samples helium; blue-green oxygen, and red nitrogen and hydrogen. Credit: NASA, ESA, and K. Noll (STScI), Acknowledgment: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) #nasa #space #star #hubble