This patriotic fireworks display is truly out of this world.

New images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope reveals a star some 7,500 light years away bursting with hot, expanding gases in red, white and blue.

Eta Carinae — a “doomed super-massive star” — is prone to “chaotic eruptions” that blast parts of itself into space like an interstellar geyser, according to astronomers at NASA’s Goddard Space Center, who say these slow-mo celestial pyrotechnics started 170 years ago. (It takes so long for the light to reach Earth that we see the star’s various displays with massive delays.)

“We used Hubble for decades to study Eta Carinae in visible and infrared light, and we thought we had a pretty full accounting of its ejected debris — but this new ultraviolet-light image looks astonishingly different, revealing gas we did not see in other visible-light or infrared images,” says lead investigator Nathan Smith of Steward Observatory at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

The Eta Carinae star may have initially weighed more than 150 suns, and astronomers have speculated for decades about whether it is on the brink of total destruction.

This particular instance of natural fireworks first kicked off in the 1840s, when Eta Carinae experienced what was dubbed “The Great Eruption,” making it the second-brightest star visible in the sky for more than a decade — and an important navigation aid for mariners in the southern seas.

The explosive star has since faded to a point where it’s barely visible to the unaided eye — but the fireworks aren’t over yet.

Using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 to map the ultraviolet-light glow of magnesium embedded in warm gas (shown in blue), NASA astronomers were surprised to discover the gas in places they had not seen it before.

This newly revealed gas is crucial for understanding how the eruption began. The astronomers add that they need to conduct further observations to measure exactly how fast the material is moving and when it was ejected.

The Eta Carinae fireworks finale will come when it explodes as a supernova at the end of its life, researchers say.

This event may actually have already occurred — but the glorious rays from such a brilliant blast haven’t yet reached Earth.