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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 ...

A stunning image from the James Webb Space Telescope revealing concentric angular rings around a giant, distant star stirred a frenzy online in September. "It must be aliens," some geeks speculated.

Two mid-infrared images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope of Wolf-Rayet 140 show carbon-rich dust moving in space. At right, the two triangles from the main images are matched up to show how much ...

Cosmic dust does far more than float through space. It's the raw material from which stars, planets and possibly even life emerge. Yet astronomers have long puzzled over where this vast amount of dust ...

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 / ...

At first, astronomer Ryan Lau thought there must be some mistake. A lead scientist on the Webb Telescope’s Early Release Science program, Lau had spotted a pattern in the light around a binary star ...

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 ...

Infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope combine three wavelengths of light to reveal the dusty shells around each Wolf-Rayet (WR) star. Credit: James Webb Space Telescope Cosmic dust does ...

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.