Cosmic Dust Rings Spotted by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
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An image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals a remarkable sight: at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pair of stars located about 5,300 light-years from Earth. Each ring was created when the stars came close together and their colliding stellar winds (streams of gas they blow into space) caused some of the gas to compress into dust.
Collectively known as Wolf-Rayet 140, the stars’ orbits bring them together about once every eight years, so just like the growth rings of a tree trunk, these dusty loops mark the passage of time: The 17 rings reveal more than a century of stellar interactions. And while other Wolf-Rayet stars produce dust, no other pair is known to produce rings quite like Wolf-Rayet 140.
Because the stars’ orbits are elliptical rather than circular, the distance between the stars changes constantly, and dust forms only when they are close. The amount of dust produced by this interaction varies, so the system doesn’t form a perfect bullseye. One of the densest regions of dust production creates the bright feature repeating at 2 o’clock.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
For more information about the Webb telescope’s mission, visit:
www.nasa.gov/webb
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I'd like to thank NASA and JPL for the last 50 years of keeping my fascination with the cosmos alive. And my oh my how things have changed
The Doctor: Where do you want to go next? Me: Let's go see the dust rings of Wolf-Rayet 140
I appreciate how astronomical observation can go from "What the heck *is* this?" to "Here's what it is, folks." 🔭 = ❤️
That is so freaking Awesome 🤩!! Much Love from this retired Navy vet 🥰🥰
More of these stunning pictures and observations please JWST. Thank you NASA JPL
This is why you should use a coaster, universe.
This is another jaw-dropping observation made by JWST. Amazing stuff!
Amazing! What a huge difference between the old image and the Webb image!
Fantastic discovery, congratulations to all the technicians, astronomers and scientists who make these wonders possible!!!
Definitely one of the coolest pics from Webb so far.
To see this up close in a starship one day...
@TheStockwell
Жыл бұрын
It's 5,300 light years away. I recommend you pack a few sandwiches and extra socks for your trip. 😉
@SimonSkiles
Жыл бұрын
@@TheStockwell Yeah even the Enterprise would take a while to get there lol
@joshuaDstarks
Жыл бұрын
Try not to die before then, buddy.
@SimonSkiles
Жыл бұрын
@@TheStockwell It would take over 7 years at maximum warp lol
@dabcorn
Жыл бұрын
would it be bright enough or in the right wavelengths for our eyes to see? You know, even up close many nebula would still appear very faint and blueish...
Nice to see what looked to be an accurate simulation overlap of the photo. JPL, What software was used? Who did the Simulation?
Incredible.. and we've only just begun with JWST
Yet another verified observation of the Electric Universe!!! Thank You JWST for showing us the "real science"!
@nightjarflying
Жыл бұрын
The EU crew have never done "real science" & this effect is the result of gravity & the interaction of two bubbles of ejected gas - not a plasma effect. You are a brainwashed dolt jumping on "real science" because you lost the only scientist among you because he realised EU is a cult with no science basis.
@TheDanEdwards
Жыл бұрын
"Yet another verified observation of the Electric Universe!!! " - no, that's just you pushing the quackery of "electric universe".
@TheStockwell
Жыл бұрын
Give it a rest, Tesla Breath. NASA's channel is supposed to be a delusion-free zone. You're welcome! 😺
@rxrobyn4boys
Жыл бұрын
Tesla breath! 😂😂😂😂 most intelligent response. Peace out friends.
@logitech4873
Жыл бұрын
I bet you look at homeless people in despair and go "this is why i hate communism"
Love me some WEBB!
Stunning
I wish somebody had already made a 23 million year time lapse of this
Magnifique !! Merci NASA 😀
The universe is so beautiful.
Happy Christmas JPL-CAL-Tech
You guys are doing great Job! I'm more interested into space then my own planet now 😂 Universe is so beautiful!
This looks strangely similar to my astigmatism.
absolutely wicked!
Woww beautiful i bet it’s soooo bright blue
I wonder how far apart those rings are?😮
Faszinierend 🥰👍🏼
This is extraordinary! Who wrote the captions? They are so beautiful - I think the writer should be credited!
awesome
0:50 So, each of those stars is in an elliptical orbit. Okay, what are they orbiting around to create this strange-looking arrangement?
@Grumman_HellCat_F6F
Жыл бұрын
pin this please
@flamencoprof
Жыл бұрын
Each other. Or put another way, they both orbit their common centre of mass. e.g. if one was 10x heavier, they would orbit a point roughly 10 times closer to the heavier one than the lighter one. Also, as per the animation, the lighter star has a longer ellipse.
The "Science News" article states: "The revelation came from comparing the positions of concentric dust shells year to year and deducing a speed." Is that a series of photo's? If yes, does anyone have a link to that series of photo's? That would be a really nice animated 'gif' to see. You know, like the "Light echoes around RS Puppis" ... !
I took a photo of the rocket launch from Vandenberg on October 7, 2018, and the picture shows the same rings! What does that mean?
🤯 time to rewrite those science books again.
O type? 😲
I think we're reaping the fortunate rewards of over-engineering JWST. 🤯
Come beloved come GB 🔥👁️💖👁️🔥
Gravitational vibration?
@nightjarflying
Жыл бұрын
No
@graemepennell
Жыл бұрын
@@nightjarflying why not?
@nightjarflying
Жыл бұрын
@@graemepennell You have not defined "gravitational vibration" - it is not a 'thing' in astrophysics. And you haven't explained how "gv" works to produce the observed effect, therefore I can dismiss your wild guess. There is orbital resonance, but that can't & doesn't eject bubbles of gas from stars.
@graemepennell
Жыл бұрын
@@nightjarflying the "bubbles" of matter/dust off are already there, the vibration is the resonance as it is gravitational. Any form of wave has the freq. Its probable the effect that is seen is due to 2 waves reinforcing each other from their sources.
@nightjarflying
Жыл бұрын
@@graemepennell No, this is not about guitars, music & effects you are familiar with. You see solutions in the form of sound waves & frequency because that's what you understand. It's certainly not about these "waves" emitted from the stars. Waves of what exactly? Gravitational waves are too weak to have an effect on dust or gas - that's why LIGO has arms 4 km long & uses laser interferometry to detect changes SMALLER than the the 'orbits' in an atom. Another point you should look up: it is understood how these dust rings are generated & so there's no need for a guitar strummer to come up with STILL UNDEFINED "Gravitational Vibrations". You have no appreciation how weak gravitational waves are & how long [the high millions & billions of years] it takes for orbital resonance to do it's thing. This isn't music of the spheres.
Are the dust rings actually three-dimensional? Also are the colors in the images in any way related to the colors from visible light?
@nightjarflying
Жыл бұрын
No & no.
@wooddogg8
Жыл бұрын
Yes, I would think they're 3 dimensional, they would be cloud-like. Webb sees in the infrared so whoever processed this seems to have done a good job. Space dust usually appears dark red in broadband RGB photography, but it's also not usually so close to bright stars, and these two are very bright
@nightjarflying
Жыл бұрын
@@wooddogg8 No. The material ejected from the stars is bubble-like, BUT the interaction between the two bubbles creates dust in a 2D spiral or as a series of 2D in the plane of the star orbits.
@brettpatching
Жыл бұрын
From NASA: "In this image, blue, green, and red were assigned to Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) data at 7.7, 15, and 21 microns."
@brettpatching
Жыл бұрын
@@nightjarflying Thanks!
Cymatics
Check your systems, again and again! Vibration methinks?
@nightjarflying
Жыл бұрын
No. Not vibration.
@alnilam2151
Жыл бұрын
@@nightjarflying Did the lens get a bump of sorts? A Jolt A Spike A Surge or A Roar like when getting pricked from ASharpDart? Check itall as the data should say/tell! {\}
@nightjarflying
Жыл бұрын
@@alnilam2151 No. The effect was observed before with another instrument - that's why they looked with JWST
@alnilam2151
Жыл бұрын
@@nightjarflying Thus then, evidence of the elusive cosmic wave soends my speculitive guesstimation: though I'm adhering too a lens theory!
@nightjarflying
Жыл бұрын
@@alnilam2151 You are a dolt spouting a word salad. And learn to spell check.
W.O.W.
Looks like water my guy.
This looks like something has penetrated a barrier and is headed in our direction.
@maxv9464
Жыл бұрын
That's not what it actually is, though.
@terrysmith6702
Жыл бұрын
@@maxv9464 When you drop a pebble into a pond, this is the same pattern but on a much larger scale. The pebble travels through the air and it's speed is broken down by the water creating this type pattern with the pebble continuing on through to it's destiny,
@maxv9464
Жыл бұрын
@@terrysmith6702 Sure. But ripples form in a lot of ways. Not just an object moving through a barrier. If you had bothered to watch the actual video, they explain a very specific explanation for how two stars orbiting one another can form this exact pattern. Humans are really good at finding patterns and connections. What we aren't that good at is separating the reasonable, scientific connections from the "huh, that looks like this so they must be the same thing" connections
@terrysmith6702
Жыл бұрын
@@maxv9464 There are no facts being stated only speculations can be derived since this is light years away. The waves seem to correlate with the year 1914 about the same time as World War One.
@logitech4873
Жыл бұрын
@@terrysmith6702 Waves are a very universal thing caused by a lot of phenomena. Attributing it to something heading towards us is pretty random.
One of the stars listened to Beyonce and put a ring, I mean rings, on it. Good for him/her/it/they or whatever you want to call a star. JAJAJA
Hay
Mujhe NASA mein aane ke liye kya karna padega
@Dead-Master
Жыл бұрын
Padhai 🥲
@rohitthakar1226
Жыл бұрын
Master's/PhD in Aerospace/mechanical/electrical/ instrumentation/Astronomy from a reputed institution in America. And do projects related to astronomy, especially in jpl. But uske baad you'll have to work somewhere else because unless you have the citizenship you can't work for NASA
It is not dust rings it's cosmic spider rings
Not rings. Standing waves.
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Dyson Sphere
@TheStockwell
Жыл бұрын
🙄
It's just a finger print of a higher dimensional being
That was great, 👍 Maybe narrate rather than text though