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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
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                                   2023 March 18   
      
                                  Wolf-Rayet 124   
           Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team   
      
      Explanation: Driven by powerful stellar winds, expanding shrouds of gas   
      and dust frame hot, luminous star Wolf-Rayet 124 in this sharp infrared   
      view. The eye-catching 6-spike star pattern is characteristic of   
      stellar images made with the 18 hexagonal mirrors of the James Webb   
      Space Telescope. About 15,000 light-years distant toward the pointed   
      northern constellation Sagitta, WR 124 has over 30 times the mass of   
      the Sun. Produced in a brief and rarely spotted phase of massive star   
      evolution in the Milky Way, this star's turbulent nebula is nearly 6   
      light-years across. It heralds WR 124's impending stellar death in a   
      supernova explosion. Formed in the expanding nebula, dusty interstellar   
      debris that survives the supernova will influence the formation of   
      future generations of stars.   
      
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