Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
For clarity, the components are now often referred to as WR and O. [8] The bright (apparent magnitude +4.2) γ 1 Velorum or γ Velorum B, is a spectroscopic binary with a period of 1.48 days. Only the primary is detected and it is a blue-white giant. It is separated from the Wolf–Rayet binary by 41.2″, easily resolved with binoculars. [11]
Gamma² Velorum (WR 11/Suhail al Muhlif/Regor) 1096 +26 −23: 2: WC8: ... 2: WR: 6.0 - 9.4: WR 8: 9,000: 1: WR: ... List of luminous blue variable stars; List of O ...
Omicron Velorum is a blue-white subgiant of spectral type B3III-IV located around 495 light-years from the Solar System. A slowly pulsating B star, it ranges between magnitudes 3.57 and 3.63 over 2.8 days. [25] It is the brightest star in, and gives its name to, the Omicron Velorum Cluster, also known as IC 2391, an open cluster located around ...
WR 136, a WN6 star where the atmosphere shed during the red supergiant phase has been shocked by the hot, fast WR winds to form a visible bubble nebula. In 1867, using the 40 cm Foucault telescope at the Paris Observatory, astronomers Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet [1] discovered three stars in the constellation Cygnus (HD 191765, HD 192103 and HD 192641, now designated as WR 134, WR 135, and ...
Prominent examples of stars in this mass range include Antares, Spica, Gamma Velorum, [2] Mu Cephei, and members of the Quintuplet Cluster. [3] Type Ia supernova progenitors are white dwarf stars that are close to the Chandrasekhar limit of about 1.44 solar masses and are accreting matter from a binary companion star.
WR 104 is a triple star system located about 2,580 parsecs (8,400 ly) from Earth. The primary star is a Wolf–Rayet star (abbreviated as WR), which has a B0.5 main sequence star in close orbit and another more distant fainter companion. The WR star is surrounded by a distinctive spiral Wolf–Rayet nebula, often referred to as a pinwheel ...
January 30, 2025 at 2:52 AM. Members of the U.S. Figure Skating team were aboard American Airlines flight 5342 and are all feared dead following the crash in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 29.
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Vela, sorted by decreasing brightness.. This constellation's Bayer designations (Greek-letter star names) were given while it was still considered part of the constellation of Argo Navis.