Dr Don Goldman took this picture from his base in California Photo: NATIONAL From The Telegraph:
This spectacular cosmic bubble was caused by a gas expulsion from a dying star and is 60 light years across and 70,000 years old.
At its centre is a star, known as a Wolf-Rayet star which is 20 times the mass of the sun.
When it dies it throws out gas, creating winds which form the bubble.
It will eventually explode into a supernova.
Photographer Dr Don Goldman took this picture remotely from his base in California via an observatory in South Australia.
Dr Goldman said: "The object, known as S308 is a 'cosmic bubble' that represents a last-minute expulsion of gas from a dying star that forms a super wind in the form of a bubble.
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