by A hypnotizing vortex? A peek into a witch's cauldron? A giant space-spider web?
In reality, it's a look at the red giant star CW Leonis as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope—just in time for celebrating Halloween with creepy celestial sights.
The orange-red "cobwebs" are dusty clouds of sooty carbon engulfing the dying star.
They were created from the outer layers of CW Leonis being thrown out into the inky black void.
The carbon, cooked up through nuclear fusion in the star's interior, gives it a carbon-rich atmosphere.
Blasting the carbon back into space provides raw material for the formation of future stars and planets.
All known life on Earth is built around the carbon atom. Complex biological molecules consist of carbon atoms bonded with other common elements in the universe.
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In reality, it's a look at the red giant star CW Leonis as photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope—just in time for celebrating Halloween with creepy celestial sights.
The orange-red "cobwebs" are dusty clouds of sooty carbon engulfing the dying star.
They were created from the outer layers of CW Leonis being thrown out into the inky black void.
The carbon, cooked up through nuclear fusion in the star's interior, gives it a carbon-rich atmosphere.
Blasting the carbon back into space provides raw material for the formation of future stars and planets.
All known life on Earth is built around the carbon atom. Complex biological molecules consist of carbon atoms bonded with other common elements in the universe.
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