Page 25 - Curriculum Visions Dynamic Book
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This is a picture of the energetic hot star WR124 ejecting hot clumps of gas into space at speeds of over 160,000 kilometres an hour.
The massive star, called a Wolf-Rayet star, is a short-lived class of superhot star ejecting mass to make a furious stellar Wind.
The surrounding nebula is estimated to be no older than 10,000 years.
The star is 15,000 light-years away, located in the constellation Sagittarius.
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