Alien megastructures? Cosmic thumbprint? What's behind a James Webb telescope photo that had even astronomers stumped?

In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rungs had even astronomers scratching their heads. The picture, which looks like a kind of “cosmic thumbprint,” came from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA’s newest flagship observatory.


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Source: Phys.org