James Webb Telescope captures a star ready to explode with the biggest bang
The James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled never before seen images and phenomena happening in deep space, and it has delivered once again. Nasa said that massive stars race through their lifecycles and only some of them go through a brief Wolf-Rayet phase before going supernova, making Webb’s detailed observations of this rare phase valuable to astronomers. Wolf-Rayet stars are known to be efficient dust producers, and the Mid-Infrared Instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows this to great effect. The observation was made possible by Webb's extremely sensitive Near-Infrared Camera, which balances the brightness of WR 124’s stellar core and the knotty details in the fainter surrounding gas. Astronomers said that Webb’s detailed image of WR 124 preserves forever a brief, turbulent time of transformation, and promises future discoveries that will reveal the long-shrouded mysteries of cosmic dust.
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