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Superhot Star

A false-color rendering of an image taken in 1997 by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a nebula of glowing blobs of gas surrounding the super-hot WR124 star. The gas was ejected by the star at speeds of over 100,000 miles an hour (161,000 kilometers an hour) and covered an area some 100 billion miles (161 billion kilometers) wide.

Photograph courtesy NASA/Yves Grosdidier (University of Montreal and Observatoire de Strasbourg)/Anthony Moffat (Universitie de Montreal)/Gilles Joncas (Universite Laval)/Agnes Acker (Observatoire de Strasbourg)