NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this image of a dying star 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation. The star itself, once about five times as massive as the Sun, is some 400,000 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one of the hottest known in the galaxy. In an immense galactic recycling project, the lost gas from the star, enriched by elements like oxygen, nitrogen and carbon produced by the formerly massive star, will form the stuff for future stars.
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