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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Solves the Mystery of These Giant Rings


NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured this stunning image of the rare Wolf-Rayet 140.

This impressive image captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope can leave many bewildered and amazed. It depicts the rare Wolf-Rayet 140 (WR 140), a binary star system, or binary star system, approximately 5000 light-years from Earth. This Wolf-Rayet star is one in 600 found so far. And the mysterious rings around this star are dusty shells that extend outward over a whopping 10 trillion square kilometers! Simply put, it can be understood as the distance 70000 times the distance between The earth and ours Sun. This stunning image was captured by the most powerful James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA shared this breathtaking image while explaining that “Just as growth rings record the history of a tree, these rings contain more than a century’s worth of stellar history. Every eight years, the two stars in this image are brought together by their orbits – creating colliding jets of gas that, with the right conditions, form a new ring of dust.” And while solving the mystery of these dusty stars, James Webb Space Telescope Revealing 15 of the 17 rings seen in the image for the first time!

NASA added that these growth rings are extremely short-lived, creating strong winds that propel huge amounts of gas into space. NASA scientists believe that about half the original mass of Wolf-Rayet star may have been shed in the process. Another amazing fact is that many other Wolf-Rayet systems also form dust, but it is the WR 140 that is known to produce rings.

The space agency also revealed what this image depicts. It is considered “a bright dot in the center of starry black space. The bright dot is actually two stars that meet, because their orbits bring them closer together every eight years. The star pair is surrounded by 17 rings of orange-pink gas and dust resembling tree trunks”.

The technology behind this beautiful picture!

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observed WR 140 using the Mid-Range Infrared (MIRI) instrument. It is specifically designed to observe cooler objects in space, such as these spectacular dust rings. It also offers the best evidence that Wolf-Rayet stars can produce carbon-rich dust molecules. And surprisingly, these carbon molecules can survive even in the hostile environments around these stars.

The discovery will also help scientists understand how Wolf-Rayet stars likely provided the raw materials for star and planet formation, which may have played a role in creating the solar system. our heaven.

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