Corrections.Corrections "Gorgeous Gas"(SN: 5/24/03, p. 328) states that star BAT99-2 "is the hottest Wolf-Rayet star Wolf-Rayet star: see spectral class. known, with a surface temperature of 120,000 kelvins...." BAT99-2's temperature is actually less than 100,000 kelvins, and the star is the hottes Wolf-Rayet star know in the Large Magellanic Cloud Noun 1. Large Magellanic Cloud - the larger of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere Magellanic Cloud - either of two small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way; visible near the south celestial pole galaxy galaxy, large aggregation of stars, gas, and dust, typically containing billions of stars. Recognition that galaxies are independent star systems outside the Milky Way came from a study of the Andromeda Galaxy (1926–29) by Edwin P. . The credit for part of the composite image on the SN: 6/21/03 cover (for "Mystery in the Middle") should have read M. Christopher/OVRO, rather than C. Howard/OVRO. |
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