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I first learned about Wolf-Rayet class stars by playing Elite:Dangerous. Never underestimate where you can learn something new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%E2%80%93Rayet_star

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I learned about WR class stars from this post. They are apparently the brightest of stars and the James Webb Space Telescope has already captured some stunning images[0] of WR stars.

If you view the full-res[1] of the linked image, if you look carefully at the bottom-left of the purplish plume, you will see what looks like an entirely separate yellowish-green spiral galaxy. Mind blowing.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf–Rayet_star#/media/File:Wo...

[1]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Wolf-Ray...

I made a GIF blinking JWST's and Hubble's photos of WR-124 and its nebula. That background spiral galaxy in the mid-infrared ("green" ↦ 11.3 μm) isn't visible to Hubble at all.

https://i.ibb.co/Db9V8p9/hello.gif

Sources,

https://esawebb.org/images/weic2307f/ (HST)

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/111/01G... (JWST)

Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Super interesting how much difference there is and how much more can be seen with the these newer IR cameras. The Hubble ain't too shabby though.

Similarily, I'm pretty sure that I heard of that name first in Eve Online.

Yep: "why isn't my fuel scoop working??" was some motivation to look up star types.

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