An image of a dying star captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has been released. The star Wolf-Rayet, WR 124, identified by the James Webb Space Telescope, which cost $10 billion to develop, is 15,000 light-years away from Earth, and its central star emits purple and yellow glowing gas moving 150,000 km/h. is emitted at a rate of
According to the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Wolf-Reye stars are considerably more massive than the Sun, but are rapidly losing mass. It was a star with more than 30 times the mass of the sun, but so far it has lost 10 solar masses. It is now in the process of losing its outer layer, causing a supernova explosion when it reaches its lifetime.
This image is a composite of images taken by two observation instruments, the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid Infrared Observatory (MIRI), which are mounted on the James Webb Space Telescope. Filming with these cameras allows the James Webb Space Telescope to capture a different side of the celestial body.
WR 124 captured the central core and surrounding gas with NRRCam, and the nebular structure surrounding the star with MIRI. The Hubble Space Telescope has also observed WR 124 in the past. Originally taken in 1998, an updated version was taken in 2015 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The gas and dust surrounding the star is purple and pink in the James Webb Space Telescope image, but bright orange in the Hubble image.
Astronomers can view WR 124 with the James Webb Space Telescope, which uses infrared light, to investigate in detail how cosmic dust was born and distributed in such an active environment. The James Webb Space Telescope is taking pictures of a variety of distant objects from a distance of 1.6 million kilometers from Earth. Images of countless galaxies released earlier this year also remind us of fears about the scale of the universe. Related information this placecan be found in
