nature on Nostr: Calabash Nebula (a.k.a. the “Pumpkin Nebula” in spirit)!Picture this: a dying ...

Calabash Nebula (a.k.a. the “Pumpkin Nebula” in spirit)!Picture this: a dying star, late in life, suddenly inflates like your uncle after too much turkey, then blasts its outer layers into space at nearly a million kilometers per hour. The result? A lopsided, gloriously wonky, golden-orange cosmic gourd glowing in the void, exactly the kind of weird, character-packed pumpkin your grandma would proudly plunk on the porch and declare “perfect.”So while you’re carving the bird, a star 5,000 light-years away just went full Thanksgiving chaos and yeeted its festive guts across the galaxy.Happy Thanksgiving from the Hubble team, and from one very proud, very asymmetrical space pumpkin!(ESA/Hubble & NASA; Processing: Judy Schmidt)