APOD: 2025 February 3 – Wolf Rayet Star 124: Stellar Wind Machine

Good afternoon, Rallypoint, and welcome to this edition of Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for February 3, 2025.

We featured a different Wolf-Rayet star last week (WR-140, Jan 29th). Here's one from the APOD archives: WR-124. Glowing gas globs each typically over 30 times more massive than the Earth are being expelled by violent stellar winds, thus creating the surrounding nebula known as M1-67, which spans six light years across. The star itself is visible at the center.

Talk about a sun lamp.