A blue bubble shines in deep space in new Hubble photo
 

A blue bubble shines in deep space in new Hubble photo
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A blue-tinted cosmic bubble floats*30,000 light-years from Earth.*

A newly-released photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows a star, named*WR 31a, circled by*a*Wolf–Rayet nebula — the bubble-shaped blue structure made of gas and dust in the image.

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"Unfortunately, the lifecycle of a Wolf–Rayet star is only a few hundred thousand years — the blink of an eye in cosmic terms," Hubble said in a statement.*

"Despite beginning life with a mass at least 20 times that of the sun, Wolf–Rayet stars typically lose half their mass in less than 100,000 years."
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