Mar 15, 2023, 04:27 PM IST

NASA Webb telescope captures star on cusp of death

Riddhima Kanetkar

NASA released the picture Tuesday at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas.

The observation was among the first made by Webb following its launch in late 2021.  Its infrared eyes observed all the gas and dust flung into space by a huge, hot star 15,000 light-years away.

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Such a transformation occurs only with some stars and normally is the last step before they explode, going supernova, according to scientists.

This star in the constellation Sagittarius, officially known as WR 124, is 30 times as massive as our sun and already has shed enough material to account for 10 suns, according to NASA.