Impending Stellar “Death” Revealed – NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures Prelude to Supernova
Wolf-Rayet 124: A Star in Transition Wolf-Rayet stars are a rare prelude to the famous final act of massive stars: the supernova. In one of…
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Hubble Image of the Week – EZ Canis Majoris, Sh2-308
This newly released Hubble image shows a few of the tenuous threads that comprise Sh2-308, a faint and wispy shell of gas located 5,200 light-years…
Hubble Image of the Week – Blue Bubble in Carina
This newly released Hubble image shows Wolf–Rayet star WR 31a. Sparkling at the center of this beautiful NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is a Wolf–Rayet…
Hubble Image of the Week: A Cosmic Couple
This newly released Hubble image shows star Hen 2-427 and nebula M1-67. Here we see the spectacular cosmic pairing of the star Hen 2-427 (more…
Hubble Image of Wolf-Rayet Galaxy SBS 1415+437
Hubble gets a closer look Wolf-Rayet galaxy SBS 1415+437, a star-bursting galaxy with an unusually high number of extremely hot and massive stars known as…
First Direct Confirmation of a Wolf-Rayet Star Self-Destructing in a Type IIb Supernova
Using an innovative sky survey called the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory, scientists have the first direct confirmation that a Wolf-Rayet star died in a violent…