2021Westerlund 2
Chandra · Hubble
Stars · 2025
WR 124
A star that may become a black hole
- Distance
- 15,000 light-years
- Telescopes
- Chandra, Webb, Herschel, WISE, Spitzer
A rare Wolf–Rayet star, furiously shedding its outer layers. In a few hundred thousand years it may collapse into a black hole.
What you’re hearing
Webb, Chandra, and a combined infrared view from Herschel, WISE, and Spitzer. The clumpy ejected gas has a different grain from the compact X-ray core.
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NASA sourceNASA/CXC/SAO/K. Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)
