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The central star in this image is nicknamed “Nasty 1,” derived from its catalog name of NaSt1. 😆 A glowing disk of gas surrounds the bright star in this 2013 image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Nasty 1 is thought to be a massive, rapidly-evolving star weighing well over 10 times the mass of our sun. The star is losing its hydrogen-filled outer layers quickly, exposing its super-hot and extremely bright helium-burning core. Nasty 1 is thought to have a companion, and gravitational interactions between them may have created the gas disk. Both stars are heavily obscured by gas and dust in the disk. The system is about 10,000 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Mauerhan (University of California, Berkeley). ALT TEXT: A bright blue disk stretching from the bottom left to the top right sits against a dark blue background. The disk appears to be made of gas circling around an even brighter blue center.

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Scientists discovered a new star “Nasty 1

Scientists discovered a new star “Nasty 1

LONDON: Sometimes space may seem scary, even violent. This is what has driven scientists to call a new star discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope as “Nasty 1.” This is because the start is quite different from our own star, the Sun. Nasty 1, unlike most stars, has its core exposed because of the rapid breakdown of its outer layers, giving scientists a view of the awe-inspiring core. While Nasty…

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someone spent my taxpayer dollars to name a star NASTY 1 and i could not be happier

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Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed ‘Nasty’

By Ray Villard

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered surprising new clues about a hefty, rapidly aging star whose behavior has never been seen before in our Milky Way galaxy. In fact, the star is so weird that astronomers have nicknamed it “Nasty 1,” a play on its catalog name of NaSt1. The star may represent a brief transitory stage in the evolution of extremely massive stars.

First discovered several decades ago, Nasty 1 was identified as a Wolf-Rayet star, a rapidly evolving star that is much more massive than our sun. The star loses its hydrogen-filled outer layers quickly, exposing its super-hot and extremely bright helium-burning core.

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