By Noor Al-Sibai
In brilliant new images, the James Webb Space Telescope has captured a rare glimpse at the gaseous “shrouds” that surround dying stars before they go supernova. Known as Wolf-Rayet stars, which were discovered nearly 160 years ago by astronomers Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet at the Paris Observatory and named in their honor, these ancient stars are, as聽Space.com notes, surrounded by a “shroud” of cosmic dust that will eventually explode outward and lay the foundations for new stars. These ag猫d stars, as聽Space.com explains, have burned off most of their hydrogen. According to Noel Richardson, the leader of the team at [鈥