Rings on a star? We thought planets only have those. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope discovered a new space phenomenon in the great beyond, and it is the formation of rings over 130 years, appearing 5,000 light years away from the planet.
Wolf-Rayet stars make our sun look tiny. They can be hundreds of times more massive, millions of times brighter, and tens of thousands of degrees hotter.
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Wolf Rayet Stars: Four Indian Astronomers Trace Rare Supernova Explosion From Nainital
Indian astronomers tracked a rare supernova explosion called Wolf Rayet Stars and discovered that it was one of the hottest kind of stars in the universe
Indian astronomers have tracked a rare supernova explosion and traced it to be one of the hottest kind of stars. They are highly luminous objects a thousand times that of the Sun. They are called Wolf Rayet Stars and these are highly energetic explosion.
A team of astronomers from Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences in Nainital, Uttarakhand along with international collaborators conducted the optical monitoring of one such stripped-envelope supernova. According to Ministry of Science and Technology, the supernova was called SN 2015dj. The supernova was hosted in the galaxy NGC 7371 which was spotted in 2015.