Warm dusty rings glow around a weird binary star

So I'm sitting at home catching up on email, and I get a note from my friend Whitney who does press and outreach for the NASA infrared observatories Spitzer and WISE. There's a new image from WISE that might be of interest, she claims. OK, I think, clicking the link; WISE images are usually a bit odd -- astronomical objects tend to look very different in the far infrared than what I'm used to --but even then, when the image came up on my browser, I was struck by a major dose of holy frakitis: