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Loading contentTheta Muscae is a wolf-rayet star in the constellation Musca (Muscae).
Wolf-Rayet. Evolved, massive stars shedding their outer layers in powerful stellar winds. Such stars have surface temperatures around ≥ 30,000 K and appear blue to the eye.
| Spectral type | WC6 + O9.5I |
| Luminosity class | I |
| Apparent magnitude | 5.44 |
| Absolute magnitude | -14.56 |
| Luminosity (Sun = 1) | 58,076,442 |
| Colour index (B−V) | -0.033 |
Values are real catalogue data; fields without a reliable value are omitted, never estimated.
A Wolf-Rayet star is a hot, evolved, massive star driving away its outer layers in fierce stellar winds, often a prelude to a supernova.
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