This time, the result looks a lot like something we're familiar with here on Earth.
According to a press release from NASA, the telescope's latest stunning image is similar to a human fingerprints, with its rings of stardust formed by light from the two stars.
The agency's press release states that each ring was created when the two stars came close together. Like the growth of rings of a tree's trunk, the dust loops mark the passage of time when the stars are together.
The image is the subject of a new study. Ryan Lau is an astronomer and lead author of the book.
Lau said in NASA's press release that they were looking at over a century of dust production.
Lau said that the image shows how sensitive the telescope is. We used to only be able to see two dust rings. At least 17 of them have been seen.
Wolf-Rayet stars emit their distinctive dust clouds, which are made up of hydrogen, carbon, and other elements, as they lose mass.
The heavy elements in the wind cool as they travel into space and are compressed where the winds from both stars meet.
A Wolf-Rayet star is a process as beautiful as it is for the formation of stars.
It could provide clues about the formation of our own Sun.
You can't see the rings on Neptune, usually. It was with the James Webb. Oh wow.
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