I imaged this object last month and processed in different ways, just ended with this version that satisfied me the most with a completely different workflow, using a couple of new tools in PixInsight.
WR134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star of type WN located roughly 6,000 light years from us. Its surface temperature approaches 63,000K and it is 400,000 times as luminous of the Sun. In the image, WR134 is the bright white star in the center of the oxygen bubble. WR134 is surrounded by a faint expanding shell of oxygen ionized gas, powered by the intense radiation and stellar wind from the star.
The first WR stars were discovered in 1867 by C.J.E. Wolf and G. Rayet while working at the Paris Observatory. While conducting a survey of the stars in Cygnus, they observed three stars in close proximity that exhibit unusually strong and very broad emission lines, rather than the absorption lines seen in other stars. One of the three stars originally identified by Wolf and Rayet was WR134.
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