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Intense and short-lived
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture shows a galaxy named SBS 1415+437 or SDSS CGB 12067.1, located about 45 million light-years from Earth. SBS 1415+437 is a Wolf–Rayet galaxy, a type of starbursting galaxy with an unusually high number of extremely hot and massive stars known as Wolf–Rayet stars.
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Credit lineIntense and short-lived. NASA/GSFC, 2015-06-29. Public domain. ID: hubble-view-wolf-rayet-stars-intense-and-short-lived_18731205164_o.