Wolf–Rayet stars, often abbreviated as WR stars, are a rare heterogeneous set of stars with unusual spectra showing prominent broad emission lines of...

Wolf–Rayet (WR) can mean: Wolf–Rayet star, a type of evolved, massive star Wolf–Rayet galaxy, which contains large numbers of Wolf–Rayet stars Wolf–Rayet nebula...

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A Wolf-Rayet nebula is a type of nebula created from stellar winds expelled by Wolf-Rayet stars. Wolf-Rayet stars are very hot, highly luminous, and rapidly...

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located about 2,580 parsecs (8,400 ly) from Earth. The primary star is a Wolf–Rayet star (abbreviated as WR), which has a B0.5 main sequence star in close orbit...

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A pinwheel nebula is a class of Wolf–Rayet nebula in the shape of a pinwheel. Some Wolf–Rayet stars are surrounded by pinwheel nebulae. These nebulae are...

galaxies. Wolf–Rayet galaxies (WR galaxies), galaxies where a large portion of the bright stars are Wolf–Rayet stars. The Wolf–Rayet phase is a relatively...

luminous stars List of least massive stars List of coolest stars "Wolf-Rayet Star Catalogue". pacrowther.staff.shef.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-05-28. Sander...

atmospheres and evolve to Wolf–Rayet stars before their cores collapse. All Wolf–Rayet stars end their lives from the Wolf–Rayet phase within a million years...

WR 140 is a visually moderately bright Wolf–Rayet star placed within the spectroscopic binary star, SBC9 1232, whose primary star is an evolved spectral...

Apep is a triple star system containing a Wolf–Rayet binary and a hot supergiant, located in the constellation of Norma. Named after the serpent deity...

supergiants including Westerlund 1-26, one of the largest known stars, 24 Wolf-Rayet stars, a luminous blue variable, many OB supergiants, and an unusual supergiant...

explode as a supernova or completely shed their outer layers to become a Wolf–Rayet star. Stars with an initial mass above about 40 M☉ are simply too luminous...

This is a list of Wolf-Rayet stars, in order of their distance from Earth. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is around 163 kly distant and the Small Magellanic...

BAT99-98 is a Wolf–Rayet star located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, in NGC 2070 near the R136 cluster in the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus). At 226 M☉...

1415+437, also known as PGC 51017, is a blue compact dwarf galaxy and Wolf-Rayet galaxy located in the constellation Boötes approximately 45.3 million light-years...

heavily obscured region of the Milky Way in Cygnus. The rare WO type Wolf–Rayet star WR 142 is a member of Berkeley 87. This cluster contains HD 229059...

WR 102 is a Wolf–Rayet star in the constellation Sagittarius, an extremely rare star on the WO oxygen sequence. It is a luminous and very hot star, highly...

list includes massive Wolf–Rayet stars, which may become Type Ib/Ic supernovae, particularly oxygen-sequence (Wolf-Rayet WO) stars. As of 2023, most...

million L☉, and is also one of the hottest, at around 46,000 K. It is a Wolf–Rayet star at the center of R136, the central concentration of stars of the large...

mass to evolve safely into old age as a Wolf Rayet star and finally a white dwarf, or they reach the Wolf Rayet stage and explode as supernovae, or they explode...

NGC 2020 is an HII Region surrounding the Wolf-Rayet star BAT99-59. It is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The nebula was discovered on 30 December...

WR 124 is a Wolf–Rayet star in the constellation of Sagitta surrounded by a ring nebula of expelled material known as M1-67. It is one of the fastest...

as SMC WR8, is a binary star in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). A Wolf-Rayet star and a main sequence companion of spectral type O orbit in a period...

containing a Wolf-Rayet star and two massive companions. With an apparent magnitude of 5.5, it is the second-brightest Wolf–Rayet star in the sky, although...

DR1 is a solitary Wolf-Rayet (WR) star in the irregular dwarf galaxy IC 1613, located approximately 721 kiloparsecs (2,350,000 light-years) distant in...