Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 6871  ·  NGC 6883  ·  The star 27Cyg  ·  The star 28Cyg  ·  The star 29Cyg
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WR 134  with surrounding shell, James E.
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WR 134 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away in Cygnus. It is surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown by the intense radiation and fast wind from the star. 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 as the Sun.

WR 134 was one of three stars in Cygnus observed in 1867 to have unusual spectra consisting of intense emission lines rather than the more normal continuum and absorption lines. These were the first members of the class of stars that came to be called Wolf-Rayet stars (WR stars) after Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet who discovered their unusual appearance.  It is a member of the nitrogen sequence of WR stars, while the other two (WR 135 and WR 137) are both members of the carbon sequence that also have OB companions.  (Wikipedia)

Taken over several nights:  July 22, 28 and 30; August 1, 3 and 5, 2021.

-- Also see the 11 hr starless OIII revision which shows the full surrounding shell  --

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WR 134  with surrounding shell, James E.