I used my 17” telescope in dark Texas skies to capture this: A star much like ours as it dies.
You can see the core of the star left behind in the center of the expanding shell.
Any planets that were around this star have been destroyed.
This spiral galaxy, recently observed by @NASAHubble, is in the middle of a cosmic journey that will take it hundreds of millions of years. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/4ebPYHh
ALT A two-slide image depicting a bright spiral galaxy. Its wispy arms, brown and blue with reddish-pink dots, surround a bright, somewhat cloudy core. A few other galaxies are faintly visible around the borders of the image. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker