# @nasa on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CVnx-y5JFLd
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11733193-nasa-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/de0ac9b4c8.jpg
- **Posted:** 2021-10-29T17:51:52.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Space spiderweb alert! 🕷

Here’s a creepy celestial NASAHubble photo of a dying star called CW Leonis - just in time for Halloween!

The orange-red "cobwebs" in this image are actually dusty clouds of carbon engulfing a star at the end of its life. At a distance of 400 light-years from Earth, CW Leonis is the closest carbon star to our home planet.

CW Leonis has a relatively low surface temperature of 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit. The greenish beams of light emanating from the star are enhanced for better analysis through infrared image color-contrast.

Credits: EuropeanSpaceAgency/Hubble, NASA, and Toshiya Ueta (University of Denver), Hyosun Kim (KASI)

#NASA #Hubble #Halloween #SpookySeason #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Stars #Cobwebs #Firepit #Galaxy #Space

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stars, astronomy, nasa, hubble, cobwebs, astrophotography, halloween, firepit, space, spookyseason, galaxy

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