The James Webb Space Telescope has just spotted a doomed star 40 million light-years away — wrapped in a dust shroud so thick it was invisible to Hubble — and the discovery may finally explain why the

For decades, the wider scientific community has been operating with a particular structural puzzle in the field of stellar death. The puzzle involves what theoretical models of stellar evolution predict, versus what astronomers have actually been observing. The theoretical models predict that the majority of core-collapse supernovae, which are the explosive deaths of massive stars, […]