Excited to now share this story; papers have been accepted!

Apep is an awesome system, unlike any other we know about. It is named after the Egyptian God of Chaos - because, well, it is chaos!

Two Wolf-Rayet systems orbited by a third supergiant. As all their winds collide, they form these beautiful structures that have now been observed with #JWST and ESO's VLT.

I had a chat with fellow student from Macquarie Uni. Ryan White who has led one of the two papers that are released about this.

My latest for #SpaceAustralia

https://www.spaceaustralia.com/news/order-amongst-chaos-apep

📸 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Simulation: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White (Macquarie University); Visualization: Christian Nieves (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

#Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #Apep #Science #WolfRayet

Excited to now share this story; papers have been accepted!

Apep is an awesome system, unlike any other we know about. It is named after the Egyptian God of Chaos - because, well, it is chaos!

Two Wolf-Rayet systems orbited by a third supergiant. As all their winds collide, they form these beautiful structures that have now been observed with #JWST and ESO's VLT.

I had a chat with fellow student from Macquarie Uni. Ryan White who has led one of the two papers that are released about this.

My latest for #SpaceAustralia

https://www.spaceaustralia.com/news/order-amongst-chaos-apep

📸 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Simulation: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White (Macquarie University); Visualization: Christian Nieves (STScI); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

#Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrodon #Apep #Science #WolfRayet

🔭 James Webb Space Telescope Spots Stellar Death Shrouds

｢ According to Noel Richardson, the leader of the team at Florida's Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University that found four new Wolf-Rayet systems, the hydrogen burn-off signals that the stars are dying. As they do, powerful winds that pump out of the star system roughly every eight years create the concentric rings that make up these ghastly "shrouds." ｣

https://futurism.com/james-webb-star-shrouds

#science #wolfrayet #jwst