The rare and fleeting phase of a star on the cusp of death was captured by the Webb Space Telescope. NASA released the picture during the keynote address Tuesday at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. The observation was among the first made by Webb following its launch in late 2021. Its infrared eyes observed all the gas and dust flung into space by a huge, hot star 15,000 light-years away. A light-year is about 5.8 trillion miles.