NASA's James Webb Telescope recently got a front-row seat to some incredible stellar fireworks on the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy.
The eruption of gases from a stellar jet in a distant nebula is so big that NASA described it as a "volcanically growing monster star."
Need another description to put the cosmic show into context? As NASA put it, Webb's image of the stellar jet – streaking across space at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour – resembles a double-bladed dueling lightsaber like the one Darth Maul used in the "Star Wars" franchise.
Stretching across 8 light-years, the rare stellar eruption is about twice the distance between our sun and the next nearest stars, the Alpha Centauri system. The central young star, or protostar, weighing as much as 10 of our suns, is located 15,000 light-years away in the outer reaches of our galaxy.
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