A couple of days ago Hubble released a picture that will blow your mind! Click on the picture to make it big, and trust me, you really want to make it big.
Photo by NASA.
This baby is about 15 times heavier than our Sun, but it is over 10.000 times brighter! It’s still in the process of forming itself, but it’s getting there, slowly. Some 2000 light years away, IRS 4 (for Infrared Source 4) is rapidly rotating, a process which caused two gigantic lobes on both sides to appear. Read more about this fantastic star here.
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