Webb Spots Four Distinct Dust Shells around Two Wolf-Rayet Stars

Nov 20, 2025 - 17:00
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Webb Spots Four Distinct Dust Shells around Two Wolf-Rayet Stars
Webb’s mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Yinuo Han, Caltech / Ryan White, Macquarie University / Alyssa Pagan, STScI.

Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), two team of astronomers have captured a mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust around two aging Wolf-Rayet stars in a system known as Apep (2XMM J160050.7-514245).

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