Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  27 Cyg  ·  28 Cyg  ·  NGC 6871  ·  NGC 6883  ·  The star b1 Cyg  ·  The star b2 Cyg
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WR 134, Prea
WR 134
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WR 134

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WR 134

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Crop of an image showing WR 134. I will wait until next summer to add more data to enhance the image.

WR 134 is  the remnant of a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus.
It is five times the radius of the sun, but due to a temperature over 63,000 K it is 400,000 times as luminous of the sun.
WR 134 was one of three stars in  Cygnus observed in 1867 to have unusual spectra consisting of intense emision lines rather than the more normal continuum and asorbsionlines These were the first members of the class of stars that came to be called Wolf-Rayet stars (WR stars) after Charles Wolf  and George Rayet who discovered their unusual appearance.

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