This Timelapse Of An Exploding Star Took Four Years To Make And It Is Beyond Beautiful

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Space. It’s vast and truly terrifying to think about. But we get images like this. The Hubble Space Telescope took photographs of this star — V838 Monocerotis — for four years. It looks like something out of a science fiction movie! This is happening all around us — we just can’t see it. Isn’t space wonderful?

h/t Huffington Post Science