A false-color image of the Apep Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. (Image credit: Han et al./White et al./Dholakia; NASA/ESA)
The James Webb Space Telescope has created a stunning new image of two dying stars surrounded by a spiral of dust.
This extremely rare star system is located approximately 8,000 light-years from our planet, within our Milky Way galaxy. Upon its discovery in 2018, it was named Apep, after the ancient Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, who is depicted as a snake swallowing its own tail.
A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the system in unprecedented detail, revealing that it consists not of a single dying star but two, with the third consuming their dusty shells. The researchers published their observations July 19 in two papers on the preprint server arXiv, which have not yet been peer-reviewed.
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