Hubble spies vast gas disk around unique massive star

This visible-light image taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a pancake-shaped disk of gas around an extremely bright star in our Milky Way galaxy. The disk glows brightly in the light of ionized nitrogen. 

NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

WR124, a massive star that emits giant blobs of gas

Wolf-Rayet star WR124 and the surrounding nebula M1-67. Credit: Yves Grosdidier (University of Montreal and Observatoire de Strasbourg), Anthony Moffat (Universitie de Montreal), Gilles Joncas (Universite Laval), Agnes Acker (Observatoire de Strasbourg), and NASA