Bangladesh, July 2 -- Washington, July 02 (Xinhua/UNB) -- The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an ongoing fireworks show in the universe which started 170 years ago when a doomed super-massive star went through a titanic celestial outburst.

The U.S. space agency telescope showed that the hot, expanding gases of the star in a double-star system 7,500 light-years away glowing in red, white and blue, taking the shape of a bipolar ballooning lobes of dust, gas and filaments, according to NASA's press release on Monday.

The star called Eta Carinae may have initially weighed more than 150 suns and after its eruption, it was so bright that for a time became a navigational star for mariners in the southern seas, and now still visible to the ...