NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just delivered one of its most stunning pics yet—and it was actually one of the first objects the spacecraft spotted when it went into orbit in 2022. In June 2022, ...

NASA's Webb Space Telescope has captured the rare and brief phase of a star in the constellation Sagittarius right before dying and going supernova. The image, released Tuesday at the South by ...

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 ...

It happened 15,000 years ago, but the light is only now just reaching Earth — courtesy of NASA’s James Webb telescope. The scope caught images of a star in the rarely-sighted Wolf-Rayet phase, on the ...

When a star runs out of fuel and starts to cool, the pressure outside the star falls. When the pressure in a massive star drops sufficiently, gravity takes control and the star collides in a matter of ...

The Hubble Telescope has captured a true blast from the past, spotting the colossal explosion of a star from over 11 billion years ago in the first detailed look of a supernova so early in the ...

The star is about 30 times more massive than our sun and has already shed 10 suns' worth of gas and dust. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...