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Hubble Space Telescope image resembles holiday wreath of sparkling lights

Credit: NASA, ESA, and Z. Levay (STScI/AURA)

This festive NASA Hubble Space Telescope image resembles a holiday wreath made of sparkling lights. The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled in a gossamer cocoon of reflective dust illuminated by the glittering star. RS Puppis rhythmically brightens and dims over a six-week cycle. It is one of the most luminous in the class of so-called Cepheid variable stars. The nebula flickers in brightness as pulses of light from the Cepheid propagate outwards. Hubble took a series of photos of light flashes rippling across the nebula in a phenomenon known as a “light echo.”

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WWF says:

December 21, 2013 at 1:31 am

The Standard of Procuder (SOP): The planet will travel so far from center of Galatic..then it will be coordinize by ingredient inside of earth if there are still human or not..when the planet sharp at the coordinat for deleting then all the entire of universe will watch it LIVE free pay- per-view...so we can count how much this related image..we must have refrerence maybe like a...CHALIPHATE as a behalf of this planet to communication cosmic network..like u feel today introducing os ROBOT
WWE says:

December 21, 2013 at 1:14 am

Tittle: "Hubble Space Telescope image resembles holiday wreath of sparkling lights"...Beautyful...this image is sample for other planet to take advise about the Qiyamah (End of The Day)...becouse its beautyful we must preparing ourself to zoom out inside introducing is no human_being in that planet..so please do not eating human body like Gog & Magog with Dajjal as a cooking..