Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding beyond the next in precisely the same ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted an intriguing object created by a rare pair of stars that are encircled by rings of dust. The pair, known as Wolf-Rayet 140, is located 5,000 light-years ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope revealing concentric angular rings around a ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has ...

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The binary system Apep has a stack of four nested dust shells around two Wolf-Rayet stars. A third star creates a wedge-shaped gap in the pattern. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Yinuo Han / Ryan White / ...

A pair of stars in our galaxy is revealing how light pushes around matter. It’s the first time anyone has directly seen how the pressure of light from stars changes the flow of dust in space.

Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ongoing source of carbon-rich dust in our own Milky Way galaxy in greater detail: Wolf-Rayet 140, a system of two massive stars that follow a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that an exceptionally rare star duo in the Milky Way has a third companion — and it's a monster. The star system, named Apep after the Egyptian god of ...