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Its features are strikingly similar to that of a Wolf-Rayet star, but HD 45166 has a different spectral signature altogether.

The Wolf-Rayet star WR 124, about 15,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation Sagitta, is one of the first observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope.

"We propose that the magnetized Wolf-Rayet star formed by the merger of two lower-mass helium stars," the team wrote in the study.

They discovered one of the pair to be a particularly unusual Wolf-Rayet star.

There may yet be more than one way that magnetars are formed — and we won't be around to check the team's math when the Wolf-Rayet star finally collapses in approximately 1 million years.