160,000 light years away, the Tarantula Nebula houses many young, hot stars. But the weirdest is probably the “over-contact” binary named VFTS 352 whose two huge, hot surfaces are touching as they dance rapidly around. Whether as a gamma ray mega-burst or twin supernovas leaving binary black holes disrupting space-time, there’s no way this ends well.
Credit: Space.com / ESO / VLT FLAMES Survey / Additional Animations: NASA / GSFC / D.Berry / Edited by @SteveSpaleta