6 NASA images show final moments of dying star

A star's life cycle is determined by its mass. The larger its mass is, the shorter life it has. Here are 6 images captured by NASA that shows the final moment f a dying star.

A dying star’s final moments are captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

This image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A) displays a stellar explosion of a star. Cas A is one of the most well-studied supernova remnants in all of the cosmos.

This is an image of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula located about 8,000 light-years away, finds an Hourglass Nebula around a dying star.

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a sun-like star in its final moments, casting off its outer layers of gas and forming a planetary nebula.

The star's outer layers were ejected into space, during its final moment, by strong stellar winds, exposing the star's core.

The Bug Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. A blanket of icy hailstones at its center shrouds the fiery, dying star.

Credit: NASA