It’s smoking hot and super close to death. In other words, WR 102 is here for a good time, not for a long time. A rare star in the constellation Sagittarius, this glowing gas ball is one of the very few known oxygen-sequence Wolf–Rayet stars, with just four in the Milky Way galaxy and six in external galaxies.

Not only that, but WR 102 is the hottest known star, with a surface temperature of 210,000 K and emitting hundreds of thousands of times the light of the Sun. Even if you had enough reflective, heat-resistant material to say goodbye to this star before it dies, you’d get blown away by stellar winds of 5,000 kilometres per second. You’re better off sending a thoughtful text.