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William Edward Sanders

William Edward Sanders (1883–1917) was a New Zealand recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest British and Commonwealth combat award for gallantry. He took up a seafaring career in 1899 and earned a master's certificate in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. He served on troopships until April 1916, when he was commissioned in the Royal Naval Reserve. He was appointed second in command of Helgoland, a Q-ship operating against German submarines. He was given his own command, HMS Prize, in February 1917. Sanders was awarded the VC for his actions while on his first patrol as captain, when Prize engaged and drove off a German U-boat that had attacked and damaged the ship. He was killed in action when Prize was sunk by a U-boat on her fourth patrol. His VC is currently held by the Auckland War Memorial Museum. His memorials include the Sanders Cup, a sailing trophy for 14-foot (4.3 m) yachts. (Full article...)

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AG Carinae is a luminous blue variable star in the constellation Carina. It is one of the most luminous stars in the Milky Way, although its great distance from Earth (20,000 light-years) and intervening interstellar dust mean that the star is not usually visible to the naked eye; its apparent brightness varies erratically between magnitude 5.7 and 9.0. Apparently in a transitional phase between a massive class-O blue supergiant and a Wolf–Rayet star, AG Carinae is highly unstable and suffers from erratic pulsations, occasional larger outbursts, and rare massive eruptions. The star is surrounded by a nebula of ejected material at a distance of 0.4 to 1.2 parsecs (1.3 to 3.9 light-years). The nebula contains around 15 solar masses of material, all lost from the star around 10,000 years ago. This photograph of AG Carinae and its surrounding nebula was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2021, as one of its anniversary images.

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