WR 124
Wolf-Rayet star shedding its skin · JWST
15,000 light-years from Earth
A star 30 times the Sun's mass in its last brief, violent stage, throwing off its outer layers. The ejected gas cools into clumps of dust that JWST sees glowing in infrared, ten light-years across.
- 15,000 to 21,000 light-years (estimates differ) · its gas flies out at ~700 km/s
- it will probably end as a supernova
- kind
- star
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