NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the rare and fleeting phase of a star on the cusp of death.
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Its infrared eyes observed all the gas and dust flung into space by a huge, hot star 15,000 light-years away. A light-year is about 9.46 trillion kilometres. A few decades ago, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped a shot of the same transitioning star, but it appeared more like a fireball without the delicate details., Anthony Moffat , Gilles Joncas , Agnes Acker , and NASA.Scientists say such a transformation occurs only with some stars and, normally, is the last step before they explode, going supernova.
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