7 minutes 54 seconds| Wolf-Rayet stars are of special interest to me, if only for their overachievement. They are large, bright, hot, and short-lived. They arise from blue-white O class stars, the largest main sequence stars, except their outer layers of hydrogen have been blown free in shrouds of planetary nebulae.
This is all academic, since their disrupted neighborhoods make for pretty pictures.
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