Nearing the end of their life, they sit quietly for long periods of time, barely noticeable, before suddenly puffing out a cloud of smoke.Then abruptly the stars would become between 40 to 100 times dimmer, sometimes so faint that the telescope's infrared vision could barely spot them.
Rice University astronomer Megan Reiter and colleagues took a deep dive into one of the first images from NASA James Webb Space Telescope and were rewarded