Here, webb’s powerful infrared eyes bring a second dying star into full view for the first time.

From birth to death as a planetary nebula, webb can explore the expelling shells of dust and gas of aging stars that may one day become a new star or planet

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And webb might help scientists figure out how the dust cooks up a star, why stars form in clusters and how planets form around a star.

An international team of astronomers today announced the discovery using nasa’s james webb space telescope (jwst) of the two earliest and most distant galaxies yet confirmed, dating back to only 300 million years after the big bang.

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