There's probably an entire litter of plotbunnies in here somewhere.
Apep is a Wolf-Rayet binary system, which means it's about to go supernova. Any time now. It produces beautiful dust plumes that, bizarrely, move slower than the stellar wind than they're pushing out.
It's rapidly rotating.
When it does go it's going to produce a long gamma ray burst. Thankfully, not pointed in our direction (a gamma ray burst of that strength could destroy the Earth's ozone layer and essentially render Earth uninhabitable).
But we might be able to observe it.
I don't trust that thing, though...
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