A massive star on the distant outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy is seen blowing a powerful cosmic blowtorch in a new image courtesy of James Webb Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) caught the two jets slamming into the interstellar medium around them, forming the nebulous structure known as Sharpless 2-284, or Sh2-284 for short. The jets stretch across eight light-years total as they expand at a rate of hundreds of thousands of miles per hour. What's more, their very existence is proof of the process by which the most massive stars in the universe form.
