A 'prelude to a supernova' is how NASA describes this stunning new James Webb Space Telescope image of Wolf-Rayet Star WR 124. Travel 15,000 light years in this zoom-in to see the amazing look. Credit ...

The rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars known – was one of the first observations made by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in ...

A massive Wolf-Rayet star in the Cygnus X-3 system is speeding toward its destruction, torn apart by the powerful gravitational forces of what may be a black hole. This system, located 32,000 ...

V Sagittae’s violent mass transfer hints at an imminent nova—and a future supernova visible from Earth. Binary star systems are fairly common in the universe, as are pairs where one star is a compact ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of two dying stars wreathed in a spiral of dust. The highly rare star system is located some 8,000 light-years from Earth, within our ...

A star system 5,000 light-years from Earth, surrounded by layers of dust, could help scientists better understand the final stages of stellar life. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes The Webb Space ...

Ever wondered what it would be like to live at the very heart of our galaxy? The Milky Way’s center is a breathtaking, chaotic realm where stars are packed millions of times closer than in our solar ...

A new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals a remarkable cosmic sight: at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of stars. escope reveals a remarkable cosmic ...

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Infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope combine three wavelengths of light to reveal the dusty shells around each Wolf-Rayet (WR) star. Cosmic dust does far more than float through space.

Apep is a rare stellar system containing a pair of doomed Wolf-Rayet stars, orbiting each other 8,000 light years from Earth. A new study reveals this system could erupt as the first gamma ray burst ...

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