NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just given us some gorgeous views of a giant star's dying days.
On Tuesday (March 14), NASA released JWST images of WR 124, a rare Wolf-Rayet star that lies about 15,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Sagittarius.
WR 124 is about 30 times more massive than our sun and has ejected more than 10 solar masses' worth of gas and dust into space to date, NASA officials said. All that dust, banal though it may sound, is extremely interesting to astronomers.
Source: www.space.com
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