NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected strangely shaped concentric rings around a distant star called WR140, which is in the constellation Cygnus and resides about 5,600 light-years from Earth.
The image showed that the star is surrounded by curved rings in red, and the scientists did not find an explanation for the formation of these rings.
Mark McGreen, ESA’s senior science and exploration adviser, also reported that: “WR140, also known as Wolf-Rayet, has a lot of hydrogen in space, and it tends to be surrounded by dust that can form In strange shells by a companion star,” according to the British newspaper, “Daily Mail”.
It is noteworthy that the “James Webb” telescope used the near-infrared camera (NIRCam) and the medium-infrared instrument (MIRI); that block out the surrounding starlight to take pictures.