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NGC 6888 (Crescent Nebula) NGC 2359 (Thor's Helmet Nebula) M1-67 (Luminous Blue Variable Nebula) NGC 3199 (Nebula around WR 18) These nebulae exhibit intricate structures revealed in visible light as well as infrared, X-ray, and other wavelengths, providing insight into the powerful stellar winds and evolutionary processes around Wolf-Rayet stars.
WR 140 is a visually moderately bright Wolf–Rayet star placed within the spectroscopic binary star, SBC9 1232, [7] whose primary star is an evolved spectral class O4–5 star. [7] It is located in the constellation of Cygnus , lying in the sky at the centre of the triangle formed by Deneb , γ Cygni and δ Cygni .
WR 135 is a variable Wolf-Rayet star located around 6,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Cygnus, surrounded by a faint bubble nebula blown by the intense radiation and fast wind from the star. It is just over four times the radius of the sun, but due to a temperature of 63,000 K it is 250,000 times as luminous as the sun.
WR 124 is a Wolf–Rayet star in the constellation of Sagitta surrounded by a ring nebula of expelled material known as M1-67. [9] It is one of the fastest runaway stars in the Milky Way with a radial velocity around 200 km/s. It was discovered by Paul W. Merrill in 1938, identified as a high-velocity Wolf–Rayet star. [10]
WR 22, also known as V429 Carinae or HR 4188, is an eclipsing binary star system in the constellation Carina.The system contains a Wolf-Rayet (WR) star that is one of the most massive and most luminous stars known, and is also a bright X-ray source due to colliding winds with a less massive O class companion.
NGC 2359 (also known as Thor's Helmet) is an emission nebula [3] in the constellation Canis Major. The nebula is approximately 3,670 parsecs (11.96 thousand light years) away and 30 light-years in size. The central star is the Wolf-Rayet star WR7, an extremely hot star thought to be in a brief pre-supernova stage of evolution.
The nebula is bubble-like and surrounds a Wolf–Rayet star named EZ Canis Majoris. This star is in the brief, pre-supernova phase of its stellar evolution. The nebula is about 4,530 light-years (1,389 parsecs) away from Earth, [3] but some sources indicate that both the star and the nebula are up to 5,870 ly (1,800 pc) away.
It lies on the southwestern side of the Carina Nebula. Collinder 228 and the Carina Nebula are approximately 2.2 kpc away. [7] However, the Gaia Data Release 2 parallax gives a distance around 4 200 for WR 24. [5] A light curve for WR 24, plotted from Hipparcos data [8] WR 24 has been reported to vary in brightness by about 0.02 magnitudes. [7]