#wr124

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WR124

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WR124... Kind of looks like a big explosion. When in fact it is a star encompassed by a ring nebula. Located in the Sagitta constellation.

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WR124 - Wolf Rayet 124, the Stellar Wind Machine is a rare site of a star exploding over a 20,000 year period. It is about six light years across. Generally most Wolf Rayet stars end their life in a massive explosion resulting in a supernova or a gamma-ray burst.

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WR124

WR124 is a Wolf-Rayet star located about 15,000 light years away towards the constellation Sagittarius. It is surrounded by a wind nebula, M1-67, which is only around 10,000 years old.

Wolf-Rayet stars are a rare class of short-lived, super hot stars that may end in supernova explosions or gamma-ray bursts. WR124 is going through a transitional phase of large outbursts of material. The nebula's form is created by the strong stellar wind, which sends the material out in blobs rather than smoothly. Each clump is about 30 times the mass of the Earth, at travel at over 100,000 miles per hour.

Image from ESO, information from HubbleSite.

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WR 124 (Again!) by geckzilla on Flickr.

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M1-67 & WR124 by geckzilla on Flickr.

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This dramatic Hubble image of the Nebula M1-67 around star WR124 as 100 billion-mile wide glowing gas blobs 15,000 light-years away, located in the constellation Sagittarius. Each blob is about 30 times the mass of the Earth.