Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), two team of astronomers have captured a mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust around two aging Wolf-Rayet stars in a system known as Apep (2XMM J160050.7-514245). Webb’s mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Yinuo Han,...
![The image shows NGC 1866 superimposed with a false color image from the MUSE data cube, where the ionized shell of the planetary nebula Ka LMC 1 is seen as a red ring. The grayscale insets illustrate the different size of the ionized shells of singly ionized nitrogen [N II] and doubly ionized oxygen [O III]. The magnified Hubble image near the center of the ring reveals the presence of a pale blue star -- most probably the hot central star of Ka LMC 1. Image credit: AIP / M.M. Roth / NASA / ESA / Hubble.](https://cdn.sci.news/images/2025/11/image_14348-Ka-LMC-1-195x110.jpg)
