Feeling bubbly? 💫 The Bubble Nebula (or NGC 7635) shows an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star. It's the result of the death of a star 45 times more massive than our Sun! Scanned from top to bottom, color is mapped to pitch in this sonification of the nebula. The bright blue of the bubble can be heard as higher pitches; the red and orange regions’ lower pitches are heard most clearly at the beginning on the left and in the top half of the bubble in the middle. Br

You can't burst this bubble. 🫧 The Bubble Nebula is located about 7,100 light-years away. The big "bubble" is material shedding off a star at its center! The star is about 4 million years old, and in 10-20 million years it will likely detonate in a supernova explosion. Hubble made its first observations of the Bubble Nebula #OTD in 1992, and captured this nebula again to celebrate Hubble's 26th anniversary in 2016. Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/47irt7x #NASA #Hubble #OnThisDay #history #nebula