How a dying star is similar to a lava lamp

Astronomers captured bubbling cells of gas 75 times as wide as the sun in this red giant star

Three yellow circles filled with different patterns of light and dark

A time series of images of the star R Doradus shows bubbles of gas rising and sinking. The images were taken in 2023 with the ALMA telescope in Chile on July 18 (left), July 27 (center) and August 2 (right).