Thursday 18 June 2015

Wolf-Rayet | Nasty 1

Why in news?

NASA’s Hubble space telescope has spotted a weird star in our galaxy and has been nicknamed “nasty” owing to its behaviour never seen before.


First discovered several decades ago, "Nasty 1" was identified as a Wolf-Rayet star, a rapidly-evolving star that is much more massive than Sun. But now it does not behave like a normal wolf-rayet star.

What do Nasty1 and Wolf-Rayet mean?

Source: Indian Express

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