Wolf-Star 124

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Wolf-Star 124 ✩

DANCING RING

WOLF STAR 124 with Nebula M1-67

WR 124 and M1-67 are a famous pair: a hot, massive Wolf-Rayet star violently ejecting its outer layers, forming a young, expanding nebula (M1-67) around it, revealing clumps of gas and dust about 15,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagitta, it is a prelude to its eventual supernova explosion. 

WR 124 is one of the fastest runaway stars in the Milky Way, moving at a radial velocity of roughly 200 km/s.

  • Nebula Age: Estimated to be between 10,000 and 20,000 years old, M1-67 is considered very young in astronomical terms.

  • Clumpy Structure: The nebula is composed of massive clumps of gas, some 30 times the mass of Earth and spanning 150 billion kilometers—roughly the distance from the Sun to Saturn.

  • Evolutionary Stage: WR 124 is in a brief, violent transitional phase before it eventually explodes as a supernova. 

Our own lives at time can become catoic and unpredicable as we work through the changing events inside and out we tend to expell what does not serve us, creating room for something new, the athenticiy of this process is seen in the ever changing and eventually emplodded star M124.

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Sagitta is one of the 48 constellations first cataloged by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the second century. Its name is Latin for “arrow”. There are a number of Greek myths associated with this constellation. In one, it represented the arrow Hercules used to kill the eagle that Zeus sent to chew on Prometheus’ liver. In this version, the eagle is represented by the constellation Aquila. In another myth, it may represent the arrow that Apollo used to kill the Cyclopes. In still another myth it represents the arrow of Eros which made Zeus fall in love with Ganymede. In this version, the eagle guards the arrow in the sky.

Sagitta is home to an unusual star known as WR 124, an unstable Wolf-Rayet star that has expelled a nebula of material known as M1-67, it can only be seen with very large telescopes.

Galatic Location: Sagitta Constellation

Celestial Phenomenon: Wolf-Star 124 with nebula M1-67

Collection:  88 Constellations