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Today, I talked about
some of our observations

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in our early release
science programs,

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so, some of the first
observations done by JWST.

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And what we looked at is mass
loss from a mass of evolved

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stars -- so, again, these
dying types of stars.

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I think that the most
compelling reason

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you should care about dying
stars is the stuff you're

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made of came from stars.

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And if you want to understand
the origins of everything

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in the universe more
complex than just hydrogen,

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you have to study
these processes.

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Wolf-Rayet stars, these
dying, massive stars,

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are likely important sources
of dust in the interstellar

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medium of the universe.

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Dust is cool because dust is
critical for building planets,

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for building
asteroids, for building

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all of the solid parts
of our solar system.

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And so, we want to understand
where all of these critical

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components came from --

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and there are a lot of
different possibilities.

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But studying these
stellar systems with JWST

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allows us to trace this dust
formation for the first time.