Hypergiant Star Canis Majoris Wall Art including Frame Sizes:MEDIUM (20x30) the tethers were severed

the tethers were severed

which looks surprisingly like a Valentine's heart in WISE's view

Perhaps a cross-species celestial handshake is imminent

Such gas clouds are known as emission nebulae

Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin

Hypergiant Star Canis Majoris Wall Art including Frame Sizes:MEDIUM (20x30) the tethers were severedThis artist's impression of hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris shows the star's vast convection cells and violent ejections. VY Canis Majoris is so large that if it replaced the Sun, the star would extend for hundreds of millions of miles, between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Humphreys (University of Minnesota), and J. Olmsted (STScI)