<p>A <a href="https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~pberlind/atlas/htmls/wrstars.html">Wolf-Rayet star</a> evolves quickly and is much more massive than our sun. This particular one, named Nasty 1, swirls in the middle of a two-trillion-mile-wide nebula in this illustration released by NASA. </p>
A Massive Nasty
A Wolf-Rayet star evolves quickly and is much more massive than our sun. This particular one, named Nasty 1, swirls in the middle of a two-trillion-mile-wide nebula in this illustration released by NASA.
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Week's Best Space Pictures: Champagne Flows, Pockmarked Moon
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Feed your need for "heavenly" views of the universe every Friday with our picks of the most awe-inspiring space pictures. This week, enormous gas bubbles burst like champagne and Cassini captures a moon's cratered face.
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