It Takes Very Special Conditions to Create This Bizarre Stellar Spectacle

A stellar odd couple 700 light-years away is creating a chaotically beautiful display of colourful, gaseous filaments. The Hubble captured the pair, named R Aquarii, and their symbiotic interactions. Every 44 years the system’s violent eruptions blast out filaments of gas at over 1.6 million kilometers per hour. R Aquarii consists of two dramatically different …