NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures mysterious explosion

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a mysterious explosion and now it has been revealed it is a newborn star located over 9,000 light-years away.

An extraordinary astronomical explosion was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. (NASA)

The Hubble Space Telescope never fails to astonish us. The telescope has once again left us mesmerised with a mysterious image that it took. It turned out to be a bright newborn star enveloped by a veil of dense gas and dust. 'IRAS 05506+2414,' the young star captured by the Hubble Telescope, is located almost 9000 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. The image was shot by using Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) of the telescope. This young object is believed to be an example of a violent explosion caused by the disruption of a massive young star system.

As reported by Scitechdaily, twin outflows of gas and dust from a young star are formed from the spinning discs of material surrounding it. “In the case of IRAS 05506+2414, however, a fan-like spray of material travelling at velocities of up to 350 kilometres per second (780,000 miles per hour) is spreading outwards from the centre of this image,” says the report.

Astronomers can measure the velocity of material speeding outwards from the star, but it's difficult to measure how far from Earth the star actually is from a single observation.

Not jut this newborn star, last month, Hubble Telescope captured a bright red supergiant star "Betelgeuse'' recovering slowly after it had physically blown its top off in 2019. The star has lost a significant portion of its visible surface causing a massive Surface Mass Ejection (SME). This hadn't happened ever before, Andrea Dupree from the Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said.

"Never before has a huge stellar surface mass ejection been seen. We are left with a situation that we don't fully comprehend." As shared by Nasa, “Betelgeuse appears as a brilliant, ruby-red, twinkling spot of light in the upper right shoulder of the winter constellation Orion the Hunter.”