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| | The Pistol Star |
 | | If the H model is what the Pistol star really looks like, then it is the winner & champion, the brightest star in the galaxy, anywhere from 10,000,000 to 25,000,000 times brighter than the sun. |
 | | The Pistol nebula, featured in figure 1, is almost certainly a creation of the Pistol star and its powerful stellar wind. |
 | | It may well be that the Pistol star, like other luminous blue variables (Eta Carinae, for instance) experiences episodic mass loss, so that the mass in the nebula comes from past episodes. |
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