The James Webb Space Telescope captured a magnificent image of the 'fingerprint'
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The uncommon glimpse of a "fingerprint" in space was obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope.
The image's "fingerprint" is made up of 17 concentric circles emanating from a point of contact.
When two stars pass each other once every eight years, the rings form.
NASA released a photograph on Tuesday that appears to depict concentric rings extending out from a point of interaction
Between two massive stars known as the Wolf-Rayet 140, located approximately 5,000 light-years from Earth.
The rings are generated whenever the two stars get close to each other in their orbit, which happens once every eight years
according to NASA's description of the shot. The stellar winds — or gas streams — from the stars are compressed