Unraveling a spiral stream of dusty embers from a massive binary stellar forge

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#Unraveling a spiral stream of dusty embers from a massive binary stellar forge

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“#Unraveling a spiral stream of dusty embers from a massive binary stellar forge” Sequence of 7 mid-IR (~10 micrometers) images of WR 112 taken between 2001 – 2019 by Gemini North, Gemini South, Keck, the Very Large Telescope (VLT), and the Subaru Telescope. The length of the white line on each image corresponds to about…