"We see layers like an onion," says astronomer Josh Peek of the Space Telescope Science Institute in the US. "We think every dense, dusty region that we see, and most of the ones we don't see, look ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI The dust generated by Wolf-Rayet 140 might eventually contribute to the formation of new stars and planets in the galaxy. “We know carbon is necessary for the formation ...

Astronomers have long tried to track down how elements like carbon, which is essential for life, become widely distributed across the universe. Now, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ...

This dust produces a ring or shell around the two massive stars, which then begins drifting ... concentric ring-like shells around the WR 140 system, that are expanding into space.