WR16

The Wolf-Rayet star WR19 in the constellation Carina. Other designations are V396 Carinae, as a variable star, and HD86161, as a star in Henry Draper's 1924 catalog of 225, 300 of the brightest stars. Wolf-Rayet stars are short-lived large bright stars that throw off a large amount of plasma, visible here as bright magenta nebulae of hydrogen plasma (HII).