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Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit
2025-06-15galaxy
Some serious chaotic energy… Webb refined our view of a star system called Apep, named after the Egyptian god of chaos. Apep was thought to consist solely of two Wolf-Rayet stars, which are a rare class of massive, evolved, luminous stars.
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. View on Flickr