NASA Captures Images of Stars Before They Explode. (Sources: webbtelescope.org and Daily Star)
The distance star WR 124 is in the constellation Sagittarius which is about 15,000 light years from Earth. However, the James Webb telescope was able to clearly capture the star’s purple hue because it uses high-tech lenses and has an infrared camera.
Massive stars keep racing through their lifetimes, only a few of which briefly go through the Wolf-Rayet phase before exploding and eventually making their way to the Supernova stage.
Wolf-Rayet (WR) 124 is about 30 times as massive as the sun, but stars that are more massive will have shorter lifetimes. NASA therefore describes Wolf-Rayet stars as ‘a rare beginning to last act of a well-known star: a Supernova’.
Launching from Siakapkeli, apart from explaining how NASA’s James Webb telescope captured the Wolf-Rayet WR 124 star in detail, it also explained the appearance after the star exploded.
“In one of the first observations, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 in unprecedented detail. Gas and dust (after it exploded) were seen surrounding the star and shining like infrared light which was detected by Webb, revealing its structure. and episodic emission history.” NASA information.
“Despite being a ‘disappearing’ scene, astronomers also look at the Wolf-Rayet star for a new beginning,” he added.
