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WR 124
WR 124 is a hot, luminous Wolf-Rayet star in the constellation Sagitta, surrounded by the ring-shaped nebula M1-67. The nebula consists of gas and dust expelled during the star’s evolution, while the star itself has a strong stellar wind and is losing mass at a high rate. Images from the James Webb Space Telescope have made the system a useful example for studying the brief, unstable stages that c...
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Rigel
Rigel marks one of Orion's feet as a bright blue supergiant, with the hot primary star belonging to spectral class B. Its great intrinsic luminosity helps make it one of the prominent stars in Earth's night sky despite a distance commonly estimated at roughly 860 light-years. Distance estimates carry uncertainty, so that figure is best treated as approximate rather than as an exact measurement.
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