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  Wolf-Rayet Stars
Wolf-Rayet stars are hot (25-50,000+ degrees K), massive stars (20+ solar mass) with a high rate of mass loss.
Wolf-Rayets stars are divided into 3 classes based on their spectra, the WN stars (nitrogen dominant, some carbon), WC stars (carbon dominant, no nitrogen), and the rare WO stars with C/O
Wolf-Rayet galaxies are galaxies that contain a large population of Wolf-Rayet stars.
cfa-www.harvard.edu /~pberlind/atlas/htmls/wrstars.html   (260 words)

  
  Wolf 1055 AB / Van Biesbroeck's Star
Both Stars A and B are flare stars, but the fainter member of the system was once thought to be low enough in mass to be a possible brown dwarf and is now commonly referred to as "Van Biesbroeck's Star" (or VB 10) after its discovery in 1940 by George Van Biesbroeck (1880-1974).
Wolf 1055 AB are flare stars, like UV Ceti (L 726-8 B) shown flaring at left.
Although the star's normal surface temperature is 4,500° F, the sudden burst heated VB 10's outer atmosphere to around 270,000° F. The astronomers attributed this rapid heating to the presence of an intense, but unstable, magnetic field (Linsky et al, 1995).
www.solstation.com /stars/wolf1055.htm   (1236 words)

  
 Wolf-Rayet star
Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 and surrounding nebula in the constellation Sagittarius.
Wolf-Rayets are believed to be O stars that have lost their hydrogen envelopes, leaving their helium cores exposed, often in a binary system, and that are doomed, within a few million years, to explode as Type Ib or Ic supernovae.
In these stars, which have lower masses and will evolve into white dwarfs, the outer envelope has been expelled in the red giant phase, exposing the hot core.
www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/W/WolfRayet.html   (322 words)

  
 Wolf-Rayet star - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wolf-Rayet stars (often referred to as WR stars) are evolved, massive stars (over 20 solar masses), and are losing their mass rapidly by means of a very strong stellar wind, with speeds up to 2000 km/s.
Wolf-Rayet stars are a normal stage in the evolution of massive stars, in which strong, broad emission lines of helium and nitrogen ("WN" sequence) or helium, carbon, and oxygen ("WC" sequence) are visible.
Wolf-Rayet stars were discovered spectroscopically in 1867 by the French astronomers Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet using visual spectrometery at Paris Observatory.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wolf-Rayet_star   (442 words)

  
 Wolf-Rayet Stars
Examples of Wolf-Rayet stars occurring in clusters include two in the ~3 million year old NGC 6231 in Scorpius, one in NGC 2359 in Canis Major, one (HD 148937) associated with NGC 6164-65 in Norma, and another (HD 192163) associated with NGC 6888 in Cygnus.
Their spectra indicate that the stars are embedded in luminous and turbulent shells of ejecta flowing outwards at speeds comparable to the expansion velocities of novae (Cherepashchuk 1992, p.
The progenitor stars might be red supergiants, luminous blue variables or possibly binary stars which have lost their outer envelope to a close companion through Roche-lobe overflow.
www.peripatus.gen.nz /Astronomy/WolRaySta.html   (3355 words)

  
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Wolf recounts that the government guided and paid for his impressive education, because they saw he had a good relationship with the Star Visitors, and because he was the brightest student his teachers had seen.
Wolf characterized Teller as "a nuclear humbug", referring to Teller's deception of making a presentation to President Reagan about an X-ray laser Star Wars weapon as almost operational, when in fact the system had never been tested, and was subsequently discarded as impossible by other Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scientists.
Wolf disclosed that famed scientist "Albert Einstein had contact with extraterrestrial intelligence." And that a more recent understanding of Zero-Point energy "has to do with a white hole-fl hole scenario." The Star Visitors told Wolf that the Void is filled with energy to be tapped.
www.drboylan.com /wolfqut2.html   (4474 words)

  
 THE INFRARED UNIVERSE - Stars
Infrared observations have led to the discovery of a large number of stars which are too cool to be detected by their visible light or are hidden behind obscuring dust.
This star, which is 10 million times more radiant than our Sun, was discovered in the center of our galaxy where it was hidden from visible light telescopes by thick dust.
Many new star clusters are still partially hidden by the dust and gas leftover from star formation, making them more difficult to view in visible light.
www.ipac.caltech.edu /Outreach/Edu/stars.html   (463 words)

  
 AstroCappella
Stars that are very luminous and very hot are called O or B stars.
The stars are not actually in fixed positions, but move slightly in the sky as they orbit about the center of the galaxy.
Like Barnard's Star, Wolf 359 is known as a red dwarf - dwarf referring to its size, and red referring to the part of the electromagnetic spectrum where most of its energy is emitted.
www.astrocappella.com /background/wolf_background.shtml   (1612 words)

  
 David Wolf - a Star Library biography
Wolf's third trip into space, Oct. 7-18 2002, was to the International Space Station.
During the mission, Wolf had the opportunity to fulfill a childhood dream when he went on a nearly four-hour spacewalk to inspect the exterior of the station.
Wolf said in interviews that his dreams of a career in space were sparked by astronaut Edward White's spacewalk outside a two-man Gemini capsule in 1965.
www2.indystar.com /library/factfiles/people/w/wolf_david/wolf.html   (842 words)

  
 The Winchester Star-Wolf: Violence Still Threatens Iraq’s Stability    (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wolf spent two days in Iraq early last week, visiting U.S. troops as well as Iraqi civilians who have been trying to eke out an existence with little resources and no government.
Wolf acknowledged that coalition forces have made “great strides” in improving the security in Iraq in recent weeks, but also presented 22 recommendations to hasten security and establishing a stable government in Iraq.
Wolf also suggested that a pro-democracy daily newspaper be launched as soon as possible.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/030602/Area_wolf.asp   (403 words)

  
 Wolf-Rayet Stars
WR stars are hot, luminous, and contain atmospheres whose thickness is comparable to the size of the star.
The strong winds from WR stars are due to the fact the radiation pressure (the force of light pushing on the gases) in the atmosphere is quite strong.
Wolf-Rayet stars (named for their discoverers) are very large, massive stars (stars which are about 20 times bigger than the sun) nearly at the end of their stellar lives.
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/ask_astro/answers/980603a.html   (514 words)

  
 SIRIUS ~ THE GOD*DOG STAR
Sirius was revered as the Nile Star, or Star of Isis, by the ancient Egyptians.
The Dog Star is a symbol of power, will, and steadfastness of purpose, and exemplifies the One who has succeeded in bridging the lower and higher consciousness.
Stars look down from regions of chaotic, violent, purity onto the world of humanity and influence the energies of humankind invisibly, yet most powerfully.
www.souledout.org /cosmology/sirius/siriusgodstar.html   (1006 words)

  
 NASA - Top Story: Wolf-Rayet stars have company
The first image is a close-up of the star (large bright area in Image 2) taken during the "Second Epoch Survey" of the southern sky by the Anglo-Australian Observatory (AAO) with the UK Schmidt Telescope.
By the time these stars are near the end of their brief lifetimes, during the "Wolf-Rayet" phase, they are fusing heavy elements in their cores in a frantic bid to prevent collapsing under their own immense mass.
Since what is seen as one star may in fact be two or even more, stupendous mass estimates of more than a hundred times that of the Sun for certain stars may have to be revised downward.
www.nasa.gov /centers/goddard/news/topstory/2004/0105wrstar.html   (1439 words)

  
 Arwing Landing - The Ultimate Star Fox Source
Star Wolf is the opposing team to Star Fox, funded most likely by Andross and Co. Below you can find a breif summary of the character as presented in the game, including their age and motivations (or lack thereof) for fighting.
Wolf O'Donnell is, unquestionably, one of the most loved characters in the Star Fox franchise.
As Wolf is to Fox, Leon is to Falco.
www.arwinglanding.net /sf64/index.php?page=starwolf   (625 words)

  
 CNN - The latest in star fashion: the curly-Q - April 8, 1999
A curly-shaped star that looks like a smaller cousin of a spiral galaxy may actually be two stars engaged in a kind of courtly space dance, astronomers said.
The scientists at the University of California Berkeley were intrigued when they first spotted the star, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius, using the Keck telescope in Hawaii a year ago.
The star is called Wolf-Rayet 104, or WR 104, and is one of a class of hot, massive, luminous stars that are much larger and brighter than our own sun.
www.cnn.com /TECH/space/9904/08/curly.star/index.html   (452 words)

  
 Science Fiction Book Reviews
ommander Jon Thomas Korie is the driven second-in-command aboard the Star Wolf, a starship engaged in mankind's ongoing war against an offshoot of humanity known as the Morthans.
Star Wolf is not a series about benevolent explorers who just happen to be armed to the teeth; it's about soldiers operating under a strict military code who happen to be armed to the teeth.
In the world of Star Wolf, officers who follow their own rules are not lionized and rewarded, like Kirk and Picard; they are court-martialed and stripped of their commands.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue349/books.html   (747 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Evil Star: Music: Wolf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Evil Star truly could have been made 20 years ago, and i have a feeling that if it did come out back then, it would still be an underground classic today.
Wolf takes it and makes it their own, drenching it in as much atmosphere as Slayer ever did, and man, at the end they do the ascending screams of 'die!' all the way up to 'DIIIIIIIIIIIIIEIEIEIIEIE' and it comes screeching to a halt and you're just left there with your jaw down.
Wolf is band that will certainly please old school metal fans and younger fans who are starting to get into the underground scene.
www.amazon.com /Evil-Star-Wolf/dp/B0001XAPMO   (1441 words)

  
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WC8 stars have relatively sharp lines; since the the widths of the lines in an expanding shell arise from Doppler effect, the speed of expansion of the plasma must be low and the degree of laser action is also expected top be low.
The lines become wider in WC7 stars, indicating that the speed of ejecction is greater than in WC8 stars; correspondingly, the degree of laser action is also expected to be greater.
Figure 9.19 - Trasing of the spectrum of the WC7 star HD 192641 from Torres and Massey (1987).
laserstars.org /wolf-rayet/index.html   (1021 words)

  
 Wolf-Rayet (WR) Stars
First identified by French Astronomers Charles Wolf (1827 - 1918) and Georges Rayet (1839 - 1906) in 1867, a Wolf-Rayet star is the candidate object to produce a sufficiently energetic supernova called a hypernova.
The expulsion of so much gas means a WR star is surrounded by an "atmosphere" of gas that is comparable in size to the star itself.
In this way, when astronomers peer at a WR star through their telescopes, they are really just seeing the ionized gas surrounding the star.
imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov /docs/science/know_l1/wolf.html   (487 words)

  
 Wolf
There are three species of wolves in the world: the gray wolf (Canis lupus), the red wolf (Canis rufus) and the Ethiopian (or Abyssinian) wolf, (Canis simensis), though some researchers believe the Ethiopian wolf is actually a jackal and not a true wolf at all.
Druidic lore depicts the wolf as the bringer of a strong sense of faithfulness, inner strength and intuition.
The red star, Sirius, is the brightest star in the Northern Sky and is known as the Wolf Star.
www.angelfire.com /ny5/spiritsong/Wolf.html   (1117 words)

  
 Wolf-Rayet star and NGC 2359   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This is one of the rare Wolf-Rayet stars, whose intrinsic brilliance is combined with high rates of mass loss from its surface.
This material is ejected from the star with velocities which approach 2000 kilometers per second.
Such stars are unusual, largely because extreme behaviour of this kind cannot be sustained for long.
www.aao.gov.au /images/captions/aat016.html   (177 words)

  
 The Winchester Star-Wolf’s 2004 Agenda Tackles Drugs, Guns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
While traveling through the 10th District Wednesday, Wolf reflected on the past year, during which he supported the U.S.-led war in Iraq, warned against a growing deficit, and tried to devise ways to improve tourism in the area.
Gang activity is one issue Wolf said will continue to grow in the new year.
In a statement on the floor of the House of Representatives, Wolf cited FBI statistics showing 3,500 guns were sold and later had to be retrieved by the federal government.
www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/040109/Area_wolf.asp   (472 words)

  
 APOD: April 9, 1999 - WR 104: Pinwheel Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
a sophisticated interferometer and the 10 meter Keck I telescope to observe the bright Wolf-Rayet star WR 104.
Wolf-Rayet stars are thought to be massive objects on the brink of a cataclysmic supernova explosion - having grown
A possible solution to this dusty dilemma is that a companion star exists hidden in the bright central region,
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /apod/ap990409.html   (168 words)

  
 Wolf Lodge Cultural Foundation
The Quickening that Ghost Wolf talked about back in the Original Art Bell Days to which Art adopted the title to his book of the same name is now unfolding.
Many of you are asking about the show Dr. Ghost Wolf did back in 1997 with the Hopi Elders on Coast to Coast Radio that made Radio History as it was the first time these elders had ever been heard on World Wide Radio.
Ghost Wolf and the Hopi Sinom The Prophecies
www.wolflodge.org   (3076 words)

  
 Is WOLF 424 IUMMA?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
For the first time the HST imaged the double star Wolf 424 AB -14.3 light-years away- of which both components are supposed to be fl dwarfs of nearly equal magnitude.
That would imply a planet with a very complex orbit having both close and far positions compared to the stars, with enormous climatic variations on the surface, surely not favourable for life.
If the planet were far away from the couple (thus very cold), or at the contrary very close to one of the stars (very hot!), the orbit could *look* like an ellipse (but we have a five decimal-precision value!).
www.ufocom.org /UfocomS/uswolf.htm   (537 words)

  
 Society for Shamanic Practitioners
Star Wolf is Founder and Director of Venus Rising Institute for Shamanic Healing Arts and the Venus Rising Isis Cove Retreat Center.
Star Wolf is a gifted ritualist and ceremonial facilitator, initiated into the Seneca Wolf Clan by Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, who gave her the name “Star Wolf”.
Star Wolf makes her home in the western mountains of North Carolina with her two loves: Brad Collins, who is also a Shamanic Minister, and her dog, Vision, a true “sha-mane.”
www.shamansociety.org /organizations.html   (939 words)

  
 Amateur observing of laser stars; Spectroscopy
The stellar wind and strong UV radiation from the Wolf Rayet star MR 102 (WN6 type) created this nebula which is also visible on the chart.
Although most Wolf-Rayet stars are bright and massive with absolute luminosity from -4 to -6, about ten percent are the subluminous central stars of planetary nebula with absolute magnitude from -2 to +4.
The very high star density (Cyg OB1) in this region of the galactic plane is strong evidence against the standard interpretation that this object is extragalactic.
laserstars.org /amateur/WolfRayet.html   (1460 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
The Star Wolf series of novels by David Gerrold is centered on the star ship Star Wolf and its crew.
The Star Wolf series reflects Gerrold's contention that, due to the distances involved, space battles would be more like submarine hunts than the dogfights usually portrayed—in most cases the ships doing battle wouldn't even be able to see each other.
Gerrold referred to the concept as "World War II in space," and intended it as a stylistic opposite of Star Trek (particularly its "Next Generation" incarnation) by setting the main characters on a small, dingy spacecraft that had little respect in the fleet rather than on the flagship.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Star_Wolf_(David_Gerrold)   (329 words)

  
 Amazon.com: WOLF STAR Claidi Journals Book II (Claidi Journals, 2): Books: Tanith Lee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
"The Wolf Star" (also published as "Wolf Star Rising") is the second of four books known as the Claidi journals, stories told in the format of a diary by the young escaped-slave Claidi and her travels throughout a fantasy world in search of her origins and a home of her own.
In the first installment "The Wolf Tower", which you really must read if you want to understand what's going on in this story, Claidi escaped the confines of the House with the handsome Nemian, only to find that his intentions for her were less than honourable.
But "The Wolf Star" is a good follow-up to the previous book, and most will be interested enough in picking up the next one "Wolf Queen," even though I am always frustrated at writers/publishers that split books into more than one volume needlessly.
www.amazon.com /WOLF-STAR-Claidi-Journals-Book/dp/0525466738   (2372 words)

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