A distant star is surrounded by concentric ripples that have a strange, squarish shape.
The James Webb Space Telescope captured mysterious concentric rings around a distant star that astronomers are still working to explain.
"I think it's just nature doing something that is simple, but when we look at it from only one viewpoint it seems impossible, at first, to understand that it is a natural phenomenon," Schmidt told Space.com in an email.
He noted that WR140 is what astronomers call a Wolf-Rayet star, which have spat much of their hydrogen into space. These objects are also surrounded by dust, he added, which a companion star is sculpting into the strange shells. Related stories—Spectacular videos reveal 'Phantom Galaxy' views by James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble —Here's how to edit James Webb Space Telescope images
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