The telescope's infrared lens observed the gas and dust flung into space by a huge star 15,000 light-years away. The shimmering purple cast-off material once comprised the star's outer layer.
"And so at the end of a star's life, they shed their outer material, their outer layers out into the rest of the universe."
She added:"I think this is one of the most beautiful concepts in all of astronomy. This is Carl Sagan's Stardust concept."The fact that the iron in your blood and the calcium in your bones was literally forged inside of a star that exploded billions of years ago. "And that's what we're seeing in this new image. That dust is spreading out into the cosmos and will eventually create planets. And this is how we got here, in fact."NASA released the picture at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas.The Hubble Space Telescope snapped a shot of the same transitioning star a few decades ago - but it appeared more like a fireball, without the delicate details.
Such a transformation occurs only in some stars and is normally the last step before they explode, going supernova, according to scientists.
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