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Astro Bob blog: Great Balls of Fire! Hubble Discovers a Real ‘Shooting’ Star

I loved Roman candles as a kid. You light one end and it shoots out balls of fire from the other. I never imagined we'd find the stellar equivalent of this July 4th favorite, but a team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope did just tha...

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I loved Roman candles as a kid. You light one end and it shoots out balls of fire from the other. I never imagined we'd find the stellar equivalent of this July 4th favorite, but a team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope did just that. Read post here

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