JWST Observes Supernova Countdown from 15,000 Light Years Away

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) captured a rare view of a Wolf-Rayet star, WR 124, which is about 30 times more massive than the Sun and has already shed enough material to make up ten Suns. The star is located roughly 15,000 lightyears away from us, in the constellation Sagitta. Observations like these give astronomers real data to work with for the first time, which could help align their models more closely to reality and provide information about the stars lighting up the night sky today.