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This rare ‘peacock’ star system in our galaxy is doomed to explode – ABC17News.com
A rare star system has been found in our Milky Way galaxy, but it’s doomed to end in a massive explosion. The star system, which looks like a cosmic pinwheel, i…
A rare star system has been found in our Milky Way galaxy, but it’s doomed to end in a massive explosion.
The star system, which looks like a cosmic pinwheel, is located 8,000 light-years from Earth. But it’s so rare that astronomers never expected to find a star system like this in our galaxy.
It’s known as a Wolf-Rayet star system. Only some massive stars evolve into Wolf-Rayets as they approach the end of their lives. This stage lasts a few hundred thousand years, but in the lifetime of a s…
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