{"id":39036,"date":"2025-11-20T13:41:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/webb-telescope-discovers-unique-triple-star-system-apep-with-rare-stars\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:41:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:41:27","slug":"webb-telescope-discovers-unique-triple-star-system-apep-with-rare-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/webb-telescope-discovers-unique-triple-star-system-apep-with-rare-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb Telescope discovers unique triple star system Apep with rare stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Webb Telescope has captured the triple star system Apep, which contains two rare Wolf-Rayet stars. New data revealed a complex structure of dust spirals around the system, where the stars orbit with an extremely long 190-year orbital period.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F11%2F20%2F1763645659-4609-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"Webb Telescope discovers unique triple star system Apep with rare stars\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique triple star system Apep, resembling a &quot;cosmic embryo&quot; and containing two of the extremely rare Wolf-Rayet stars. This is reported by Space, writes UNN.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>New data obtained with the telescope in the mid-infrared range revealed a complex structure of nested dust spirals around the triple system, where two Wolf-Rayet stars orbit each other in an extremely long 190-year orbit. Powerful stellar winds from these hot massive luminaries create dense carbon dust, which forms spiral shells every 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese astronauts trapped in orbit after their ship was used for rescue18.11.25, 20:55 \u2022 15173 views<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is a unique system with an incredibly rare orbital period<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 noted Ryan White from Macquarie University.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He emphasized that most similar systems have orbits of 2-10 years, while the next longest after Apep is only about 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/img\/2025\/11\/20\/1763645611-1363-large.webp\" alt=\"Photo: NASA\"\/>         Photo: NASA         <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the Webb telescope&#039;s MIRI instrument, it was possible to see several nested spirals at once, which record close approaches of stars over the past 700 years.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Looking at Webb&#039;s new observations, it was like walking into a dark room and turning on the light \u2013 everything became visible<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 explained Inou Han from the California Institute of Technology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Studies have confirmed that there is a third, even more massive star in the system, although in the images from both Webb and other powerful telescopes, all three appear as a single point of light, located approximately 8,000 light-years away, but the exact distance is still under study.<\/p>\n<p>Powerful solar flare: NASA rescued Russian astronauts on the ISS14.11.25, 12:46 \u2022 3448 views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Webb Telescope has captured the triple star system Apep, which contains two rare Wolf-Rayet stars. New data revealed a complex structure of dust spirals around the system, where the stars orbit with an extremely long 190-year orbital period. The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a unique triple star system Apep, resembling a &quot;cosmic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}