Wolf-Rayet Nebula

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke1820.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 1820. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Interstellar Medium, Interstellar Medium Models And Concepts

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Nebulosity surrounding a Wolf-Rayet star. Wolf-Rayet stars are of around 10 solar masses and have very high surface temperatures, up to about 40 000 K. This gives them powerful stellar winds, up to 2000 km s-1, and an enormous rate of mass loss. Material is usually ejected in the form of a spherical shell or ring (the term Wolf-Rayet bubble is sometimes used), and the accumulating envelope from s...

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