A dying star's final moments have been captured in an image thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
While the death throes of this star may be mere moments on a cosmological timescale, for those of us here on earth it's a rather slow death, lasting tens of thousands of years.
The image shows a planetary nebula knows as NGC 6565, a cloud of gas that was ejected from the star after strong stellar winds pushed its outer layers away into space.
Once this material was ejected the star's luminous core was exposed and it began to produce ultraviolet radiation.
Planetary nebulae are illuminated for around 10,000 years before the central star begins to cool and shrink to became a white dwarf.
