Hubble Space Telescope captures death of star in Rotten Egg Nebula
Tuesday, February 7, 2017 - 12:11
in Astronomy & Space
When our sun comes to the end of its roughly 10 billion-year life span, it will swell outward, swallowing Mercury, Venus and perhaps even Earth. A newly released image of a star undergoing a similar process illustrates just what this might look like.