James Webb Telescope Detects Impending Supernova.

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James Webb Telescope Detects Impending Supernova.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of WR 124, a rare Wolf-Rayet star that is about to go supernova. The star, which is 30 times more massive than our sun, has ejected more than 10 solar masses' worth of gas and dust into space. The telescope's observations could help shed light on the mysterious "dust budget surplus" in the universe, as cosmic dust is best studied in infrared wavelengths, the type of light that JWST is optimized to observe.

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