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“A thumbprint in our cosmos.”

The latest picture captured by the James Webb Telescope shows 17 dust rings surrounding a pair of stars, called Wolf-Rayet 140. This fingerprint-like phenomenon occurs every eight years when the two stars get too close to each other.

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