:: driven by powerful stellar winds, expanding shrouds of gas and dust frame hot, luminous star Wolf-Rayet 124 in this sharp infrared view. the eye-catching 6-spike star pattern is characteristic of stellar images made with the 18 hexagonal mirrors of the james webb space telescope. about 15,000 light-years distant toward the pointed northern constellation sagitta, WR 124 has over 30 times the mass of the sun. produced in a brief and rarely spotted phase of massive star evolution in the milky way, this star's turbulent nebula is nearly 6 light-years across. it heralds WR 124's impending stellar death in a supernova explosion. formed in the expanding nebula, dusty interstellar debris that survives the supernova will influence the formation of future generations of stars.