Astronomy Picture of the Day . Trifid Pillars and Jets . ... In the center of the picturesque Trifid lies a young hot star, located above and to the right of this picture. ... Kepler was an assistant to the most accurate astronomical observer of the time, Tycho Brahe. ... Betelgeuse (sounds a lot like "beetle juice"), a red supergiant star about 600 light years distant, is seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image - the first direct picture of the surface of a star other than the Sun. ...