A 'prelude to a supernova' is how NASA describes this stunning new James Webb Space Telescope image of Wolf-Rayet Star WR 124. Travel 15,000 light years in this zoom-in to see the amazing look. Credit ...

Astronomers have created a detailed forecast of where they expect to observe future stellar explosions in a nearby galaxy, ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stunning view of an exceptionally massive and hot star that’s well on its way to going supernova. The star, Wolf-Rayet 124 (WR 124), is located ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...

Wolf-Rayet stars are massive, typically 20 to 50 times the Sun's mass, identified in 1867 by Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet observing unique helium emission spectra. These stars lose their outer ...

Wolf-Rayet stars are in a brief, turbulent phase of their lives. Having exhausted the hydrogen in their cores, they shed ...

(Image: The Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 in the constellation Sagittarius, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.) The prevailing theory of the formation of the solar system is that a large, nearby supernova ...

Two intertwined stars are creating what looks like a "fingerprint" in space. NASA released a photo Wednesday taken of the duo by the James Webb Space Telescope, which shows at least 17 dust rings ...

Black holes precursors Giant windy stars, known as Wolf-Rayets, end their lives in powerful supernova explosions, according to a new study. The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, provides new ...

We know that the sun and its system of planets, which we call the solar system, were formed about 4.5 billion years, but we are not at all sure how or where the system was born. The popular theory on ...

No-one really knows how our solar system was born. Scientists generally suspect it was formed near the chaos of a supernova—the explosive death of a giant star. However, research published in The ...

Wolf-Rayet stars represent a final burst of activity before a huge star begins to die. These stars, which are at least 20 times more massive than the Sun, "live fast and die hard", according to NASA.