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Captured in the infrared gaze of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, the Pismis 24 star cluster blazes like a cosmic forge deep inside the Lobster Nebula, 8,000 light-years away.This is a stellar powerhouse: hundreds of newborn giants, some of the most massive and luminous stars in the galaxy, tearing through the surrounding gas and dust with ferocious radiation and hurricane-force winds, carving vast glowing caverns in the nebula as if sculpting the cosmos with pure fire. At its heart burns the legendary Pismis 24-1 system, once believed to be the single most massive star ever discovered, until closer inspection revealed it’s actually a pair of colossal supergiants locked in a deadly gravitational dance.These are stars born so enormous and so hot that they’ll live fast and die spectacularly, burning through their lives in just a few million years before exploding as supernovae, seeding the universe with heavy elements and leaving behind black holes as their final signature.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, James Webb Space Telescope / STScI
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