2023.10.02

Celestial Wonders

A class of rare, doomed stars enshroud themselves in mystery  Astronomers tend to exhaust superlatives when they talk about the ferociously hot

A spiral dust plume streams off the WR 104 binary-star system, as seen in infrared. (W. M. Keck Observatory/Peter Tuthill)

A spiral dust plume streams off the WR 104 binary-star system, as seen in infrared. (W. M. Keck Observatory/Peter Tuthill)

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