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Wolf-Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind Machine

By |2025-02-03T08:09:11-05:00February 3rd, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Some stars explode in slow motion. Rare, massive Wolf-Rayet stars are so tumultuous and hot that they are slowly disintegrating right before our telescopes. Glowing gas globs each typically over 30 times more massive than the Earth are being expelled by violent stellar winds. Wolf-Rayet star WR 124, visible near [...]

Stellar Streams in the Local Universe

By |2024-09-27T09:09:17-04:00September 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The twenty galaxies arrayed in these panels are part of an ambitious astronomical survey of tidal stellar streams. Each panel presents a composite view; a deep, inverted image taken from publicly available imaging surveys of a field that surrounds a nearby massive galaxy image. The inverted images reveal faint cosmic [...]

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