“I like studying these kinds of stars because I am fascinated by their instability. They are doing something weird,” said Kerstin Weis, a luminous blue variable expert at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured the nebulosity surrounding the rare luminous blue variable star AG Carinae pictured above. Less … Continue reading Hubble Space Telescope–“Witnessing a Gargantuan Star’s Utter Destruction”