Rare Star System Gives Insights into the Origins of Carbon Dust in the Galaxy
Tamara Ceaikovski
A detailed new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled the most precise portrait yet of a rare cosmic system: a pair of massive dying stars, known as Wolf–Rayet stars, orbiting tightly around each other. The rare system, named Apep after an ancient Egyptian deity that shares a similar shape, was first imaged in 2016 by the Very Large Telescope in Chile. The new JWST image zooms out to capture the concentric spherical waves of dust that emanate from the star system,
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