NASA said 'like the growth of rings of a tree’s trunk, the dust loops mark the passage of time.”
At 5,000 light-years away, Wolf-Rayet 140 is a relatively close neighbor to our solar system. Recently, the NASA Webb Space Telescope captured images of the binary star system, which gave the appearance of a “fingerprint.”
NASA said its fingerprint-like appearance was due to its solar winds. NASA said the “stars’ orbits bring them together about once every eight years; like the growth of rings of a tree’s trunk, the dust loops mark the passage of time.” “Even though Wolf-Rayet stars are rare in our galaxy because they are short-lived as far as stars go, it’s possible they’ve been producing lots of dust throughout the history of the galaxy before they explode and/or form black holes,” said Patrick Morris, an astrophysicist at Caltech in Pasadena, California, and a co-author of the new study.
Since it began sending back images this summer, the Webb Space Telescope has captured stunning images across the universe. The telescope has allowed scientists to examine galaxies up to 13.1 billion light-years away. The telescope's spectrograph permits NASA to explore galaxies' chemical composition.NASA released the first set of images from the telescope on July 12.
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