The giant dust ring was captured by the JWST camera. There are at least 17 concentric rings of dust emerging from the giant star. This is a truly amazing aspect of space objects.
JWST is the James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope is the most advanced man-made space telescope today.
He has repeatedly captured stunning sightings in space. The newest is this concentric dust ring.
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JWST captures sightings of a giant dust ring
The James Webb Space Telescope or JWST camera has again captured a truly amazing object. This time the telescope managed to capture concentric rings of dust.
Interestingly, they didn’t just catch a single ring of dust. Instead there are a total of 17 dust rings in space.
This dust ring looks like a cosmic fingerprint in the James Webb Space Telescope observations. This is one of James Webb’s many incredible shots.
How were these giant concentric rings of dust created?
Of course, after obtaining this amazing image, the researchers conducted further research into the existence of 17 concentric dust rings in space.
Apparently, this debut ring formation was created due to the interaction between two giant stars. The two stars are also known as Wolf-Rayet 140 (WR140) binaries.
The giant binary star is more than 5,000 light years from Earth. This gigantic ring of dust will form once every eight years. When the stars pass close to each other in elongated orbits.
During this approach, the solar wind will blow up to 1,864 miles per second from the colliding stars. Thus, the gas flowing from the two stars is finally compressed into a ring-shaped powder.
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It is larger than the solar system
Who would have thought, the 17 dust rings between these two binary stars are very large, even larger than the Solar System. This dust ring has been in production for 130 years.
Binary WR140, made up of two Wolf-Rayet stars and a much larger blue supergiant, is one of the most massive classes of stars in the universe.
The Wolf-Rayet star itself was born with a mass 25 times greater than the Sun. Wolf-Rayet is a star nearing the end of its stellar life cycle.
So this Wolf-Rayet star generates strong winds that push large amounts of gas into space. This inner star appears to have lost its original mass due to this process.
When the Wolf-Rayet carbon and heavy elements exhale into space, they will be compressed into the shaft where the winds of the two stars meet.
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Colleague Webb at the British Center for Astronomical Technology and co-author of the study, Dr Olivia Jones, said this was not just a spectacular image.
Instead, this gigantic dust ring phenomenon reveals new evidence for cosmic dust and how they can survive in the harsh environment of outer space. (R10 / HR-Online)
