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The 20 pages that link to Wolf–Rayet star, each with the reason it gives.

• Stellar windRelated: Its powerful wind can remove much of the star’s outer layers.

• Massive starBroader topic: Some massive stars enter this exposed, wind-dominated phase before their final collapse.

• Williamina FlemingRelated: Fleming identified the unusual spectrum of the star later known as Wolf–Rayet.

• Red supergiantCompared with: It represents an alternative evolved state after substantial envelope loss.

• Stellar mass lossBroader topic: Its strong wind exposes layers processed by nuclear fusion.

• Cassiopeia ARelated: Cassiopeia A’s progenitor likely shed most of its hydrogen before exploding.

• Cosmic dustRelated: Some Wolf–Rayet systems create dust where colliding stellar winds compress and cool.

• O-type starCompared with: Some massive stars evolve from O-type spectra into the emission-dominated Wolf–Rayet phase.

• Eta CarinaeCompared with: It is a distinct massive-star phase, unlike the eruptive luminous-blue-variable state associated with Eta Carinae’s primary.

• Pair-instability supernovaRelated: Some proposed pair-instability progenitors reach the required core conditions after losing their outer layers.

• Tarantula NebulaRelated: The nebula contains such stars, whose winds reveal late stages of massive-star evolution.

• Triangulum GalaxyRelated: M33 contains observed Wolf–Rayet stars that trace massive-star evolution.

• Luminous blue variableCompared with: Wolf–Rayet stars are often considered a possible later evolutionary state after luminous-blue-variable mass loss.

• Blue supergiantRelated: Mass loss can strip a blue supergiant’s envelope and lead toward a Wolf–Rayet phase.

• Be starCompared with: Its emission comes mainly from a powerful wind, unlike the disk emission typical of Be stars.

• R136Related: Several exceptionally massive stars associated with R136 have Wolf–Rayet characteristics.

• SupergiantCompared with: Some massive stars transition from supergiants into this stripped, wind-dominated state.

• HypergiantCompared with: Both classes lose mass rapidly, but Wolf–Rayet stars have typically shed much of their hydrogen envelope.

• HypernovaRelated: Stripped massive stars are leading candidates for long-burst hypernova progenitors.

• Type Ib and Ic supernovaeRelated: Some proposed progenitors are stripped Wolf–Rayet stars, though binary stars can also produce them.