Just in time for Halloween, the long-running Hubble Space Telescope has caught a creepy image of a star surrounded by soot.The star, an aging red giant called CW Leonis, appears to be embedded in orange spider webs. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, and Toshiya Ueta (University of Denver), Hyosun Kim (KASI)) CW Leonis is the closest carbon star to Earth, shining at a range of roughly 400 light-years away– about 100 times the distance of the closest star system, Alpha Centauri. Researchers can theorize the outcomes to even more distant stars, which Hubble may be able to peek in somewhat lower detail.Hubble has actually studied the star several times over the last 20 years or so.
Just in time for Halloween, the long-running Hubble Space Telescope has actually recorded a scary image of a star surrounded by soot.The star, an aging red giant called CW Leonis, appears to be embedded in orange spider webs. (Image credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, and Toshiya Ueta (University of Denver), Hyosun Kim (KASI)) CW Leonis is the closest carbon star to Earth, shining at a distance of roughly 400 light-years away– about 100 times the range of the closest star system, Alpha Centauri. Scientists can extrapolate the outcomes to even more distant stars, which Hubble might be able to glance in rather lower detail.Hubble has actually studied the star a number of times over the last 20 years or so.