The Last Breath of WR 134: A Star’s Eternal Gift (Carlo Caligiuri)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: HD191493 · HD191494 · HD191611 · HD191612 · HD191765 · HD191917 · HD192103 · HD228063 · LBN 182 · NGC 6883

The Last Breath of WR 134: A Star’s Eternal Gift

This time i asked Antonio, my dear soul friend, to writing a "more romantic" point of view for this amazing star.

Caption by Antonio Granata:
In the distant reaches of the cosmos, there burns
a star unlike most others: WR 134, a Wolf-Rayet star, blazing with an intensity that defies time itself. She is no ordinary celestial body, but a cosmic force in a state of endless transformation, shedding her layers in a brilliant, unstoppable torrent. Her heart, once young and bright, now pulses with the fierce glow of a life lived too fast, too wild. Every breath she takes is an exhale of energy, a surrender to the universe around her.

Her winds are fierce, whipping away her outer shell, sending streams of stardust into the void. It is a dance of release, as if she knows her time is finite, and in her final moments she chooses to give everything. Yet, even in her destruction, there is creation. The matter she casts off will someday become the seeds of new stars, new worlds, perhaps even new life. WR 134 is the perfect paradox: a star dying, yet endlessly giving birth.

To gaze upon her is to witness both the violence and tenderness of the universe—a star that chooses to spend her last breaths illuminating the darkness around her, her light fading slowly but never truly disappearing.

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RA (center)	20h10m14s.96
RA (top/left)	20h09m20s.44
RA (top/right)	20h07m43s.84
RA (bottom/right)	20h11m10s.21
RA (bottom/left)	20h12m44s.66

Dec (center)	+36°10′16″.4
Dec (top/left)	+35°35′42″.4
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Dec (bottom/right)	+36°44′47″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+35°50′18″.8

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