✨ Maybe she's born with it, maybe it's dust bubbles and gas eruptions. Brilliant blue light-emitting stars are massive, rare and hot! Things heat up as the star begins to lose mass in the final stages of life, and stellar materials begin to fall inward. As a result, star materials explosively eject into the surrounding interstellar space, and the process continues until enough mass is lost for the star to reach a stable state. Dust bubbles and an erupting gas shell, the final acts of a star’s life, are seen in these two @NASAHubble images of the nebula surrounding AG Carinae. These views demonstrate the dual nature of the Luminous Blue Variable star. The first image shows off details of ionized hydrogen and nitrogen emissions from the expanding shell of the nebula (seen here in red). Utilizing the color blue, the second image captures the distribution of dust that shines in reflected star light. The spectacular nebula surrounding AG Carinae is approximately 10,000 years old, formed by material ejected from the star during several of its past outbursts. Credit: @EuropeanSpaceAgency, NASA, A. Nota, C. Britt #NASA #Hubble #Nebula #StarStuff
