A 'prelude to a supernova' is how NASA describes this stunning new James Webb Space Telescope image of Wolf-Rayet Star WR 124 ...

The rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star – among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars known – was one of the first observations made by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in ...

The binary system Apep has a stack of four nested dust shells around two Wolf-Rayet stars. A third star creates a wedge-shaped gap in the pattern. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Yinuo Han / Ryan White / ...

Apep is a rare stellar system containing a pair of doomed Wolf-Rayet stars, orbiting each other 8,000 light years from Earth. A new study reveals this system could erupt as the first gamma ray burst ...

(CNN) -- The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a rare and tumultuous sight 15,000 light-years away from Earth. The space observatory captured a scintillating image of a Wolf-Rayet star called WR ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...

This might be the first observation of this rare type of star evolving in real time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

Observations and stellar evolution models of a hot, helium-rich Wolf-Rayet star indicate that it will produce a magnetar when it explodes as a supernova, according to a new study. The findings provide ...

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