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RE: Wolf-Rayet Stars

These stars look fairly spectacular I most say so, speculating from the pictures of these big beasts. It looks like they straight out of chemical cauldrons of nebulae, please reaffirm my suspicion if I am correct.

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that was what scientists originally thought actually, but its just solar wind

Well that's actually quite interesting. But how did they determine it was solar winds and not "Chemical cauldrons" like nonation said? (Like classification wise.)

all extremely massive stars lose large amounts of mass to solar wind. I think what they figured out first was the stars with that emission spectrum were still very large and not dwarfs (which is what they would be after creating a nebula)

The mass lost due to solar wind seems extremely large atleast in pictures to the point where it's forming their own nebulae.

I must have misread your first one, it isn't a planetary nebula but it is a form of nebula