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Things with rings:
Circuses
Planets
…and Stars?
5,300 light-years away, two giant stars come together every 8 years with such force that stellar material is blown away. Each meeting forms a new ring. @NASAWebb captured a century+ of this dance. https://go.nasa.gov/3RYZlwG
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Star Duo Forms ‘Fingerprint’ in Space, NASA’s Webb Finds

A new image shows at least 17 dust rings created by a rare type of star and its companion locked in a celestial dance.
Tony Greicius (NASA)
#NASAExoplanets
in reply to NASA

Phil Plait
Phil Plait
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I'll be a teensy bit rude here and jump in with my own article on @scientificamerican@social.oalm.gub.uy about this weird and astonishing binary system.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dazzling-new-jwst-image-shows-dusty-stellar-spirals/

Dazzling New JWST Image Shows Dusty Stellar Spirals

A new JWST image of a star surrounded by strange, rippling spirals reveals a hidden chapter in the story of how dust spreads across the cosmos
Scientific American

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