Better luck in Casa Amor — this dramatic star pair needs a recoupling💥 Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of this nebula came into focus, thanks to data from NASAWebb. Its rings, which can only be seen in infrared light, look like “fuzzy” clumps arranged in tangled patterns, and a network of clearer holes close to the central stars shows where faster material punched through. The brighter star in the center is actually two stars that appear as one, which are set off with brilliant diffraction spikes. The stars follow a tight, elongated nine-year orbit and are draped in an arc of dust represented in orange. One of these stars, which used to be several times more massive than our Sun, took the lead role in producing this scene. Once the star’s outer layers were expelled, only its hot, compact core remained. As a white dwarf star, its winds both sped up and weakened, which might have swept up material into thin shells. This scene has been forming for at least 4,000 y...