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Spectra of Wolf-Rayet Stars


This star, of spectral classification WO2, is one of the very few known oxygen-sequence Wolf-Rayet stars.
It is one of the hottest known with a surface temperature of 200,000 K, which results in the very wide emission lines.
It is nearly 1 million times more luminous than our Sun and about 1650 LY distant.

WO Wolf-Rayet stars are the last evolutionary stage of the most massive stars before exploding as supernovae,
possibly with a gamma-ray burst (GRB).

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