Wolf-Rayet Stars Disguised as an Exotic Stellar Peacock and the Wolf
Meet Apep - a rare binary system of Wolf-Rayet stars - and learn of their explosive fate!
A pair of Wolf-Rayet stars dance in an exotic stellar peacock 8,000 light years from Earth – readying to erupt in an unprecedented explosion
The Apep system readies for a massive blast that could wipe out life on vast numbers of worlds.
Apep is a rare stellar system containing a pair of doomed Wolf-Rayet stars, orbiting each other 8,000 light years from Earth. A new study reveals this system could erupt as the first gamma ray burst ever seen in our home galaxy.
Wolf-Rayet stars are on the verge of exploding as a supernova, and they are destined to leave behind exotic corpses such as neutron stars and black holes. These massive stars account for only one in 100 million stars throughout the Cosmos, and binary systems containing a pair of WR stars are exceptionally rare.
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