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Gaia space telescope discovers 55 'runaway' careening away from stellar cluster at 80 times the speed of sound
The star cluster R136, located around 158,000 light-years away, is home to hundreds of thousands of stars and sits in a ...
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Comparison Observation of R136a1, Zorro and Hubble (Annotated) (IMAGE)
The new Gemini South image allowed astronomers to clearly distinguish the star R136a1 from its nearby stellar companions, providing the data needed to reveal that – while still the most massive ...
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Happy Cosmic Valentine’s Day! Here’s a Stellar Bouquet For You
At its core lies the young and dense star cluster R136, which contains several stars exceeding 100 times the mass of the Sun. Due to its intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds ...