Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. A Wolf-Rayet star is a star that originated with a mass over 40 times that of our Sun . An extremely hot, luminous star , it has since expelled shells of material through its strong stellar wind which could account for the bubble shaped nebula that surrounds it. But astronomers are unsure how the central Wolf-Rayet created both the bubble and the arc seen above, and even whether it acted alone in doing so. Together, this bubble and the arc are known as NGC 2359 .
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