Dying Stars Twisted Like Serpents – Apep Nebula Reveals Cosmic Chaos!

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A breathtaking infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the Apep nebula—two massive Wolf‑Rayet stars wrapped in a spiral dust shell like a cosmic serpent:

🌌 Why it looks like snakes entwined: powerful stellar winds collide, forming dense carbon dust that coils in a spiral pattern.

🔥 How two equally powerful stars create a turbulent wind‑sock structure—not the expected pinwheel—unfolding under JWST’s infrared vision. ([turn0search0]turn0search0)

⏳ Apep’s fate: these binary giants are set to go supernova, perhaps igniting a gamma‑ray burst. ([turn0search2]turn0search2)

Witness the cosmic ballet of death—and beauty—captured by the most powerful space observatory ever built.

👉 Follow for more stunning revelations from space’s final frontier.

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