'Like the growth of rings of a tree’s trunk, the dust loops mark the passage of time.'
"Like the growth of rings of a tree’s trunk, the dust loops mark the passage of time.""Like the growth of rings of a tree’s trunk, the dust loops mark the passage of time."NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has taken yet another gorgeous image of the cosmos — and this time, the result looks a little like something we're very familiar with here on Earth.
"Each ring was created when the two stars came close together and their stellar winds met, compressing the gas and forming dust," the agency's press release reads. "The stars’ orbits bring them together about once every eight years; like the growth of rings of a tree’s trunk, the dust loops mark the passage of time."
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