Looks like a butterfly
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by Trixie64
Can someone explain what I'm seeing here please? It's like a butterfly, beautiful.
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by skendrew scientist, admin
This is another interesting find. A recent paper by Russian astronomers has flagged this as a possible Luminous Blue Variable or Wolf-Rayet star - these are both stages in the evolution of very massive stars after they have started evolving towards their cataclysmic deaths as supernovae. I wrote about another Luminous Blue Variable bubble spotted by a MWP user just earlier this week. This one could be similar, although it obviously has a very different morphology.
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by Trixie64
Thank you for your feedback. I'm rather excited by this!
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