NASA releases new Webb Telescope image

(14 Mar 2023)
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Austin, Texas - 14 March 2023
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Amber Straughn, NASA:
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"What we're seeing in this beautiful new image at the very center is a star. The light from that star has been traveling through space for about 15,000 years, it's 15,000 light years away, until it hit the detectors on the telescope. And the material that you're seeing around the central star that looks like dust is dust. And so at the end of a star's life, they shed their outer material, their outer layers out into the rest of the universe. And I think this is one of the most beautiful concepts in all of astronomy. This is Carl Sagan's Stardust concept. The fact that the iron in your blood and the calcium in your bones was literally forged inside of a star that exploded billions of years ago."
2. The Wolf-Rayet star image from the James Webb Space Telescope
STORYLINE:
NASA has released a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA released the image during the keynote address Tuesday at the SWSX Conference in Austin, Texas.

The telescope has captured the rare and fleeting phase of a star on the cusp of death.

The observation was among the first made by Webb following its launch just over a year ago. Its infrared eyes observed all the dust being flung into space by a star 15,000 light-years away. 

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