Most detailed glimpse yet of doomed star captured by astronomers

Most detailed glimpse yet of doomed star captured by astronomers

An international team of scientists identified a supernova’s source star, or progenitor, for the first time.

Webb glimpses doomed star before its explosion

This image shows a combined James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope view of the spiral galaxy NGC 1637. It is located some 40 million light-years away. The box in the lower right (enlarged in the upper right) shows the doomed star, a supernova known as SN2025pht. Image via Northwestern/ NASA/ ESA/ CSA/ STScI/ Charles Kilpatrick and Aswin Suresh (Northwestern). The article below is taken from a release by Northwestern University on …

Webb Telescope unveils doomed star hidden in dust

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the international team identified a supernova’s source star, or progenitor, at mid-infrared wavelengths for the first time.