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Keywords: stellar wind, Wolf-Rayet star, Crescent Nebula
![Сформированная звездным ветром туманность RCW 58](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/02/08/0001878945/Rcw58_Selby_960.preview.jpg)
8.02.2023
Imagine traveling to a star about 100 times as massive as our Sun, a million times more luminous, and with 30 times the surface temperature. Such stars exist, and some are known as Wolf Rayet (WR) stars, named after French astronomers Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet.
![Кольцевая туманность вокруг WR 134](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2024/05/31/0001930720/NebulousRealmofWR134_1024.preview.png)
31.05.2024
Made with narrowband filters, this cosmic snapshot covers a field of view over twice as wide as the full Moon within the boundaries of the constellation Cygnus. It highlights the bright edge of a ring-like nebula traced by the glow of ionized hydrogen and oxygen gas.
![Шарплесс 308: туманность Голова Дельфина](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2024/06/07/0001930970/DolphinNebulaHOO_1024.preview.jpg)
7.06.2024
Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,000 light-years away toward the well-trained constellation Canis Major and covers slightly more of the sky than a Full Moon. That corresponds to a diameter of 60 light-years at its estimated distance.
![LDN 1471: полость, выдутая звездным ветром](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/05/06/0001652598/LDN1471_HubbleSchmidt_960.preview.jpg)
6.05.2020
What is the cause of this unusual parabolic structure? This illuminated cavity, known as LDN 1471, was created by a newly forming star, seen as the bright source at the peak of the parabola.
![Шарплесс 308: туманность Дельфин](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/03/02/0001622839/Dolphin_Pleiades_960.preview.jpg)
2.03.2020
Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is much larger than the dolphin it appears to be. Cataloged as Sharpless 2-308 it lies some 5,200 light-years away toward the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major) and covers slightly more of the sky than a Full Moon.
![Звезда Вольфа-Райе WR 124: машина звездного ветра](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/03/08/0001629879/wr124_hubbleschmidt_960.preview.jpg)
8.03.2020
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.
![NGC 2359: Шлем Тора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2020/06/12/0001666593/ThorsHelmet800.preview.jpg)
12.06.2020
NGC 2359 is a helmet-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages popularly called Thor's Helmet. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across. In fact, the helmet...
![Шлем Тора](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2021/07/29/0001751010/ThorsHelmet_Miller_960.preview.jpg)
20.07.2021
Thor not only has his own day (Thursday), but a helmet in the heavens.б Popularly called Thor's Helmet, NGC 2359 is a hat-shaped cosmic cloud with wing-like appendages. Heroically sized even for a Norse god, Thor's Helmet is about 30 light-years across.
![Звезда Вольфа-Райе WR 124](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2023/03/19/0001889379/WR124_Webb1024.preview.png)
18.03.2023
Driven by powerful stellar winds, expanding shrouds of gas and dust frame hot, luminous star Wolf-Rayet 124 in this sharp infrared view. The eye-catching 6-spike star pattern is characteristic of stellar images made with the 18 hexagonal mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope.
![LL Ориона: когда сталкиваются космические ветры](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2016/05/22/0001363128/LLOri_hubble_960.preview.jpg)
22.05.2016
What created this great arc in space? This arcing, graceful structure is actually a bow shock about half a light-year across, created as the wind from young star LL Orionis collides with the Orion Nebula flow.
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