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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just delivered one of its most stunning pics yet—and it was actually one of the first objects the spacecraft spotted when it went into orbit in 2022.
In June 2022, Webb observed a star named WR 124, one of the most enormous and brightest detectable stars in the observable universe. The celestial body is roughly 15,000 light-years away from Earth, and about 30 times the size of our sun. NASA astronomers had the rare opportunity to peer at it using Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument. This allowed a rare look at the WR 124 as it went through a star phase dubbed Wolf-Rayet, or the process in which a star sheds off its outer layers before going into supernova.Its outer layers appear as a halo of bright pink and purple gas and dust in the image. While dust might seem as boring as… well, dust here on Earth, stardust is actually pretty exciting for astronomers.
This is yet another example of the type of insights that were previously inaccessible to scientists before Webb was launched. Researchers didn’t really know before whether or not dust from aging stars could even survive a supernova blast. Now astronomers have the opportunity to study WR 124 more closely to find out the truth of the very building blocks off the cosmos.
Needless to say, there is plenty more where that came from. After all, there’s so far been no shortage of
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