This star that is 45 times more massive than the Sun creates a giant cosmic bubble [PHOTO]

NASA recently released an incredible image of a massive nebula that was seen by the Hubble Space Telescope. According to the agency, the cosmic structure was created by a star that is 45 times more massive than the Sun.

NASA identified the massive cosmic object in the Hubble photo as NGC 7635, which is also known as the Bubble Nebula. It is located in the Cassiopeia constellation and is about 7,100 light years from Earth.

Massive Bubble Nebula Star

According to NASA, the central star of the nebula is approximately 45 times more massive than the Sun. Due to its mass, the star’s temperature rises to a point where hot gas escapes from its surface. As the gas moves away from the star at speeds of over four million miles per hour, they become stellar winds. These stellar winds collide with the cold interstellar gas in space. The collision causes the latter to be ejected. The interaction between stellar winds and cold gas forms an expansive bubble-like structure around the star.

“This outflow draws the cold interstellar gas in front of it, forming the outer edge of the bubble as a snow plow accumulates snow in front of it as it progresses,” NASA said in a statement. “As the surface of the bubble shell expands outward, it crashes into dense regions of cold gas on one side of the bubble. This asymmetry makes the star appear dramatically off-center from the bubble, with its location in position 10 o’clock in the Hubble view. “

Different colors of bubble nebula

The bubble created by the massive star is currently about seven light years across. In addition to the massive bubble, you can see pillars made of stardust and hydrogen gas with the nebula. In Hubble’s photo, these cosmic objects appear in various colors depending on the materials they are primarily made of.

“Dense pillars of cold hydrogen gas mixed with dust appear in the upper left corner of the image, and more ‘fingers’ can be seen almost from the front, behind the translucent bubble,” NASA said. “Gases heated at variable temperatures emit different colors: Oxygen is hot enough to emit blue light in the bubble near the star, while the coldest pillars are yellow from the combined light of hydrogen and nitrogen.”