Wolf Rayet 134 Ring Nebula in Cygnus

Nov 20th, 2025

5 h 45 m

I captured a bit of the sky, added some frames. Wolf-Rayet 134 (WR 134) is a Wolf-Rayet variable star, located about 6000 light years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus, surrounded by a faint bubble nebula inflated by intense radiation and fast wind from the star. Wolf-Rayet stars are extremely hot, bright, massive stars and one of the rarest known classes of stars. As of 2018, only 154 such stars had been discovered in the Milky Way. Some of them form impressive nebulae, such as the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888), due to their strong stellar winds, intense ultraviolet radiation, and gas clouds they ejected in the early stages of their relatively short lives. The Wolf-Rayet nebula around the Wolf-Rayet star WR 134 was first noticed in 1971.

Nov 9th, 2025

1 h 30 m

Only 1.5 hours of accumulation, next year I will accumulate more.