The stunning new imagery comes courtesy of two NASA space telescopes.
As the white dwarf and highly variable red giant orbit one another, the white dwarf pulls material from the red giant onto its own surface.
Eventually, when enough of this material accumulates on the white dwarf, it triggers an explosion that emits energy into space. Astronomers have witnessed this type of event before and have found evidence for such explosions in older data as well. In the new imagery, Hubble has captured the red and blue structures while data from Chandra shows up as the purple"lightning." This"lightning" is actually the jet of energy beaming from the white dwarf and interacting with surrounding material. When the jet hits the material around it, it creates shock waves,
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