Zoom into Star AG Carinae | Hubble

Zoom into Star AG Carinae | Hubble

This video showcases a zoom into star AG Carinae.

The star is waging a tug-of-war between gravity and radiation to avoid self-destruction. AG Carinae is surrounded by an expanding shell of gas and dust—a nebula. The nebula is about five light-years wide, which equals the distance from here to our nearest star, Alpha Centauri.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, NASA, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), KPNO/NOIRLab, Digitized Sky Survey 2, E. Slawik, N. Risinger

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: April 23, 2021

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