Blowing in the Winds Animation

Credit: Dougherty et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF
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Artist’s illustration of the binary star system WR 112. A bright blue-white Wolf-Rayet star and a nearby, smaller companion star orbit each other in space. Their powerful stellar winds collide between them, creating a glowing region where dust forms and streams outward in a spiral plume. A magnified inset in the top right corner, shows the dust grains against a reddish background, highlighting mostly extremely tiny, nanometer-sized particles along with a smaller number of grains about 100 times larger. Artist impression of WR 112
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