Hubble Watches as Star Slowly Devours Planet

Six hundred light-years from Earth, a huge exoplanet circling close to its home star is slowly, inexorably being devoured.

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Celestial Fireworks — 11x14-inch Hubble Photo of Large Magellanic Cloud

Resembling sparks from a fireworks display, this image taken by a JPL camera onboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows delicate filaments that are sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in the nearby galaxy.