George's Random Astronomical Object
George's Random Astronomical Object
George Bendo
Object 80: The Confusing and Controversial Names Episode
10 minutes Posted Aug 22, 2022 at 12:00 pm.
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The star WR 124 (also called Merrill's Star, although that name ignores two of the people involved in the discovery) is a really hot Wolf-Rayet star that has produced the surrounding nebula M1-67 (which has no relation to Messier 1) and that is hurling through the Milky Way in an unusual direction at an unusual speed.