WR 134 is a Wolf-Rayet star in Cygnus - a massive, extraordinarily hot star in a late and turbulent phase of its life. Wolf-Rayet stars are rare: only a few hundred are known in our entire galaxy. What sets them apart is a relentless stellar wind that hurls matter into space at several thousand kilometres per second. Over millennia, WR134 has shed material equivalent to the mass of our Sun through this process alone. That wind has slowly shaped and compressed the surrounding gas into the bluish ...
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