Wolf–Rayet stars, often abbreviated as WR stars, are a rare heterogeneous set of stars with unusual spectra showing prominent broad emission lines of ionised...
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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...
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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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WR 104 (redirect from Wolf-Rayet 104)
WR 104 is a triple star system located about 2,580 parsecs (8,400 ly) from Earth. The primary star is a Wolf–Rayet star (abbreviated as WR), which has...
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EZ Canis Majoris (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
constellation of Canis Major. The primary is a Wolf-Rayet star and it is one of the ten brightest Wolf-Rayet stars, brighter than apparent magnitude 7. EZ...
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WR 102 (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
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...
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BAT99-98 (redirect from Most massive star)
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☉...
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Westerlund 1 (category Super star clusters)
largest known stars, 24 Wolf-Rayet stars, a luminous blue variable, many OB supergiants, and an unusual supergiant sgB[e] star which has been proposed...
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Gamma Velorum (redirect from Star Regor)
stars in the night sky, and contains by far the closest and brightest Wolf–Rayet star. It has the traditional name Suhail al Muhlif and the modern name Regor...
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WR 1 (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
WR 1 is a Wolf-Rayet star located around 10,300 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It is only slightly more than twice the...
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Theta Muscae (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
Muscae (θ Muscae) is a multiple star system in the southern constellation Musca ("the Fly"), containing a Wolf-Rayet star and two massive companions. With...
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AB8, also known 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...
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WR 134 (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
WR 134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus, surrounded by a faint bubble nebula...
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WR 136 (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
WR 136 is a Wolf–Rayet star located in the constellation Cygnus. It is in the center of the Crescent Nebula. Its age is estimated to be around 4.7 million...
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NGC 2359 (category Wolf–Rayet nebulae)
years) away and 30 light-years in size. The central star is the Wolf-Rayet star WR7, an extremely hot star thought to be in a brief pre-supernova stage of...
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WR 142 (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
142 is a Wolf-Rayet star in the constellation Cygnus, an extremely rare star on the WO oxygen sequence. It is a luminous and very hot star, highly evolved...
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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...
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R136a1 (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
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...
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red supergiants due to high mass loss. These may instead evolve to a Wolf–Rayet star, characterised by spectra dominated by emission lines of elements heavier...
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HD 5980 (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
unusual primary has a Wolf–Rayet spectrum and has produced a luminous blue variable (LBV) outburst; the secondary, also a Wolf–Rayet star, forms an eclipsing...
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to the naked eye. Theta Muscae is a triple star system, the brightest member of which is a Wolf–Rayet star. Musca was one of the 12 constellations established...
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WR 2 (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
WR 2 is a Wolf-Rayet star located around 8,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cassiopeia, in the stellar association Cassiopeia OB1...
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WR 124 (redirect from Merrill's Star)
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...
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WR 140 (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
moderately bright Wolf–Rayet star placed within the spectroscopic binary star, SBC9 1232, whose primary star is an evolved spectral class O4–5 star. It is located...
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Sh2-308 (section Central star)
Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. The nebula is bubble-like and surrounds a Wolf–Rayet star named EZ Canis Majoris. This star is in the brief, pre-supernova...
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R136 (category Super star clusters)
object (catalogued as HD 38268 and Wolf-Rayet star Brey 82) but is now known to include 72 class O and Wolf–Rayet stars within 5 parsecs (20 arc seconds)...
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BAT99-123 (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
sequence) Wolf–Rayet star located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160,000 light years away in Dorado. BAT99-123 was the first WO star discovered...
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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...
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R136a3 (category Wolf–Rayet stars)
R136a3 is a Wolf–Rayet star in R136, a massive star cluster located in Dorado. It is located near R136a1, the most massive and luminous star known. R136a3...
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Carina Nebula (category Star-forming regions)
several Wolf–Rayet stars. Carina OB1 encompasses the star clusters Trumpler 14 and Trumpler 16. Trumpler 14 is one of the youngest known star clusters...
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