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Thor's Helmet image

Thor's Helmet


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Description

Thor’s helmet is formed from a massive Wolf-Rayet star at its center which is in a pre-supernova stage of star evolution. The bubble is about 30 light years in diameter and 15,000 light years distant in the constellation Canis Major.