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WR102 a star that is 200,000 degrees hotter than the Sun

The hottest star in our universe WR 102 astrophoto by Richard Harris

WR 102 is one of the hottest known stars in our universe and it's also among the only Wolf–Rayet stars known to be in our Milky Way galaxy. It has a surface temperatures exceeding 200,000 Kelvin. This astrophoto by Richard Harris of Missouri was taken from a remotely operated observatory in Chile using a CDK24 PlaneWave telescope.

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Pleiades cluster astrophoto taken with Explorer Scientific 127 CF and Canon 6D Full Frame camera
Leo Triplet with Meade 6000 70mm Quad ZWO 2600mm RGBL 5X300s each Richard Harris
M81 galaxy taken with the Founder Optics FOT106 ED 106mm f/6 Triplet Apo Refractor Telescope 2600MM LRGBSHO 5 minX5 each Richard Harris
The moon
M51 galaxy astrophoto taken with ES127MMCF LRGBSHO 300secX5 each ASI2600MM Richard Harris
Orion molecular cloud complex

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