Stellar Relic

The final remnants of a sunlike star blown out in a blue, hazy disk of gas and dust is captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

An Earth-size white dwarf is all that remains of the progenitor star inside this planetary nebula known as NGC 2452, in the southern constellation Puppis.

Astronomers estimate that approximately 5 billion years from now, the same fate awaits our sun.