Fire burn and cauldron bubble in Canis Major
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 08:03
in Astronomy & Space
The cosmic cauldron has brewed up a Halloween trick in the form of a ghostly face that glows in X-rays, as seen by ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope. The eerie entity is a bubble bursting with the fiery stellar wind of a 'live fast, die young' star.