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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social

12/6/2025, 12:57:55 AM

Public

This cosmic spiral is coming out of its shell!

What you’re looking at here is Apep, a trio of stars with distinct shells of dust swirling around them. This image was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, and is the crispest view we have of the star system to date.

#astrophotography
#JWST
#NASA

Image Description
Apep dominates the image, shown as swirling layers of dust circling a central point of light. The dust shells form a segmented gradient of bright yellow to deep red. The background of black space is decorated with blue stars and dust. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White (Macquarie University); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

Named for the Egyptian god of chaos, the stars in this system are anything but peaceful and tranquil. Two of the three stars are part of a rare class of massive, evolved, luminous stars. That pair creates the shells as they orbit each other, flinging out dust at up to 2,000 miles per second. The third star is a massive supergiant with a much wider orbit, and the shock of its solar wind slices holes in these shells.

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