What happens when two rare Wolf–Rayet stars dance through space? ✨

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The James Webb Space Telescope just revealed the answer: four perfect, spiralling shells of carbon-rich dust, cast off over centuries and expanding like a cosmic vortex.

This is Apep - a chaotic triple-star system where fierce stellar winds collide, carve tunnels in the dust, and hint at the powerful supernovae these stars will one day become.

Webb’s mid-infrared view uncovers every twist of this turbulent story with unprecedented clarity, helping scientists map Apep’s long, 190-year orbit and understand how some of the Universe’s most extreme stars live and eventually die.

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???? NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Y. Han (Caltech), R. White (Macquarie University), A. Pagan (STScI); Visualisation: C. Nieves; Image Processing: A. Pagan. CC BY 4.0.

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Deep Space
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ESA, European Space Agency, James Webb Space Telescope
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