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05.09 / 19:20
NASA
Bonkers! James Webb Space Telescope captures mysterious rings around a star
Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been constantly astonishing us by sharing glimpses of stars, planets, and galaxies while exploring the solar system and space. This time JWST has captured an image of a strangely shaped concentric ring-like structure around a distant star. Dubbed as WR140, the star is in the constellation Cygnus and resides around 5,600 light-years away from Earth. It is surrounded by curved yet oddly boxy rings that appear red in the image shared on Twitter by citizen scientist Judy Schmidt. She tweeted, “Nope, I don't know what this is. Some kind of spiral nebula around WR140. I'm sure we'll find out more later.”