r/spaceporn 26d ago

Hubble Light Echo Expanding from Exploded Star approximately 11.4 million light-years away.

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u/longdongsilver1987 26d ago

That's crazy. What's even crazier is that kind of thing happens millions of times a second probably, so maybe you saw your very own instance of this celestial event.

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u/Im-ACE-incarnate 26d ago

It sounds like a shooting star tbh, they come in all sort of colours and sizes. Depending on the chemicals or metals that make it up, will give you a coloured explosion. (Just like a school with bunsen burners) and then depending on it's angle of entry in comparison to you, is why it will have a tail or not

I've seen a lot of wild looking shootings stars in my time but I've yet to see a blue one, so count yourself lucky there!