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DUST TO DUST

JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE, 14 MARCH 2023

Nothing can last forever, and as some massive stars reach their final moments, they live briefly as Wolf-Rayet stars. This one, Wolf-Rayet 124, or WR124, is found in the constellation Sagitta, some 15,000 lightyears away.

WR124 is 30 times the mass of our Sun, and its surrounding

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