It wasn’t until NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) turned its eye to the scene that the story took an unexpected turn.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a gas giant self-destructing by spiraling into its young star – a "planetary suicide.” ...

Known as SDSS J115331 and LEDA 2073461, these two overlapping spiral galaxies lie over a billion light-years from Earth and were captured in a photograph by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.