This image shows a combined James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope view of the spiral galaxy NGC 1637. It is located some 40 million light-years away. The box in the lower right (enlarged in the upper right) shows the doomed star, a supernova known as SN2025pht. Image via Northwestern/ NASA/ ESA/ CSA/ STScI/ Charles Kilpatrick and Aswin Suresh (Northwestern).The article below is taken from a release by Northwestern University on October 8, 2025. Edits by EarthSky.
