A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Stretching across 8 light-years, the length of the stellar eruption is approximately twice the distance between our Sun and the next nearest stars, the Alpha Centauri system. The size and strength of this particular stellar jet, located in a nebula known as Sharpless 2-284 qualifies it as rare. The James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s premier space science observatory. Webb studies every phase in the history of our Universe and is unique in that it does not orbit around the Earth like the Hubble Space Telescope. Instead, it orbits the Sun 1.5 million kilometers (1 million miles) away from the Earth at what is called the second Lagrange point or L2.