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Hubble View: Wolf-Rayet Stars, Intense and Short-Lived
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Hubble View: Wolf-Rayet Stars, Intense and Short-Lived

NASA / GSFC · 2017-12-08 · photograph (digital archive)

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This NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope picture shows a galaxy named SBS 1415+437 (also called SDSS CGB 12067.1), located about 45 million light-years from Earth. SBS 1415+437 is a Wolf-Rayet galaxy, a type of star-bursting galaxy with an unusually high number of extremely hot and massive stars known as Wolf-Rayet stars.

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Credit lineHubble View: Wolf-Rayet Stars, Intense and Short-Lived. NASA/GSFC, 2017-12-08. Public domain. ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000695.
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